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diff --git a/main/astmm.c b/main/astmm.c
index eeeaf5bd8..bc2cd824a 100644
--- a/main/astmm.c
+++ b/main/astmm.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ ASTERISK_FILE_VERSION(__FILE__, "$Revision$")
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
+#include <stddef.h>
#include <time.h>
#include "asterisk/cli.h"
@@ -66,14 +67,26 @@ enum func_type {
static FILE *mmlog;
+/* NOTE: Be EXTREMELY careful with modifying this structure; the total size of this structure
+ must result in 'automatic' alignment so that the 'fence' field lands exactly at the end of
+ the structure in memory (and thus immediately before the allocated region the fence is
+ supposed to be used to monitor). In other words, we cannot allow the compiler to insert
+ any padding between this structure and anything following it, so add up the sizes of all the
+ fields and compare to sizeof(struct ast_region)... if they don't match, then the compiler
+ is padding the structure and either the fields need to be rearranged to eliminate internal
+ padding, or a dummy field will need to be inserted before the 'fence' field to push it to
+ the end of the actual space it will consume. Note that this must be checked for both 32-bit
+ and 64-bit platforms, as the sizes of pointers and 'size_t' differ on these platforms.
+*/
+
static struct ast_region {
struct ast_region *next;
+ size_t len;
char file[40];
char func[40];
unsigned int lineno;
enum func_type which;
unsigned int cache; /* region was allocated as part of a cache pool */
- size_t len;
unsigned int fence;
unsigned char data[0];
} *regions[SOME_PRIME];
@@ -463,6 +476,11 @@ static struct ast_cli_entry cli_memory[] = {
void __ast_mm_init(void)
{
char filename[PATH_MAX];
+ int pad;
+
+ if ((pad = (__alignof__(struct ast_region) - (offsetof(struct ast_region, data) % __alignof__(struct ast_region)))) != 0) {
+ ast_log(LOG_ERROR, "struct ast_region has %d bytes of padding! This must be eliminated for low-fence checking to work properly!\n", pad);
+ }
ast_cli_register_multiple(cli_memory, sizeof(cli_memory) / sizeof(struct ast_cli_entry));