util: fix strict aliasing violations in use of struct inotify_event v5

There is alot of cleanup that will have to happen to turn on
-fstrict-aliasing, but I think our code should be "correct" to the rule.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/mount.c b/src/core/mount.c
index f8731bb8b9..110eafdc49 100644
--- a/src/core/mount.c
+++ b/src/core/mount.c
@@ -1701,11 +1701,11 @@ static int mount_dispatch_io(sd_event_source *source, int fd, uint32_t revents,
                  * internal behaviour of libmount here. */
 
                 for (;;) {
-                        uint8_t buffer[INOTIFY_EVENT_MAX] _alignas_(struct inotify_event);
+                        union inotify_event_buffer buffer;
                         struct inotify_event *e;
                         ssize_t l;
 
-                        l = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
+                        l = read(fd, &buffer, sizeof(buffer));
                         if (l < 0) {
                                 if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR)
                                         break;