2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.c b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
index ad1aeeb4f373..fb36f8565161 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
@@ -1981,6 +1981,7 @@ nla_put_failure:
  * Returns zero if successful or a negative error code. */
 int ovs_flow_init(void)
 {
+        BUILD_BUG_ON(__alignof__(struct sw_flow_key) % __alignof__(long));
         BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct sw_flow_key) % sizeof(long));
 
         flow_cache = kmem_cache_create("sw_flow", sizeof(struct sw_flow), 0,
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.h b/net/openvswitch/flow.h
index b65f885ac3dc..212fbf7510c4 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow.h
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ struct sw_flow_key {
                         } nd;
                 } ipv6;
         };
-} __aligned(__alignof__(long));
+} __aligned(BITS_PER_LONG/8); /* Ensure that we can do comparisons as longs. */
 
 struct sw_flow {
         struct rcu_head rcu;