diff --git a/security/lsm_audit.c b/security/lsm_audit.c
index e796d251765..8d8d97dbb38 100644
--- a/security/lsm_audit.c
+++ b/security/lsm_audit.c
@@ -213,6 +213,13 @@ static void dump_common_audit_data(struct audit_buffer *ab,
 {
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 
+	/*
+	 * To keep stack sizes in check force programers to notice if they
+	 * start making this union too large!  See struct lsm_network_audit
+	 * as an example of how to deal with large data.
+	 */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(a->u) > sizeof(void *)*2);
+
 	audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%d comm=", tsk->pid);
 	audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, tsk->comm);