diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ila.h b/include/uapi/linux/ila.h
index abde7bbd6f3b7c2e59b9b7f52baa758731ccde85..cd97951680bf6ecd769139aaab2769dadd508ff2 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/ila.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/ila.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ enum {
 	ILA_ATTR_LOCATOR_MATCH,			/* u64 */
 	ILA_ATTR_IFINDEX,			/* s32 */
 	ILA_ATTR_DIR,				/* u32 */
+	ILA_ATTR_PAD,
 
 	__ILA_ATTR_MAX,
 };
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c b/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c
index 2ae3c4fd8aabc65a7206a73480b3dca4b975f7e3..9db3621b2126c1bfd2165025753a3a6dfb7b3423 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ static int ila_fill_encap_info(struct sk_buff *skb,
 {
 	struct ila_params *p = ila_params_lwtunnel(lwtstate);
 
-	if (nla_put_u64(skb, ILA_ATTR_LOCATOR, (__force u64)p->locator))
+	if (nla_put_u64_64bit(skb, ILA_ATTR_LOCATOR, (__force u64)p->locator,
+			      ILA_ATTR_PAD))
 		goto nla_put_failure;
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c b/net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c
index 0b03533453e4e9fdd3f9208ac0fe8913f169f9be..0e9e579410daf9948c53e2d8027837bc72f34851 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c
@@ -418,12 +418,15 @@ static int ila_nl_cmd_del_mapping(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
 static int ila_fill_info(struct ila_map *ila, struct sk_buff *msg)
 {
-	if (nla_put_u64(msg, ILA_ATTR_IDENTIFIER,
-			(__force u64)ila->p.identifier) ||
-	    nla_put_u64(msg, ILA_ATTR_LOCATOR,
-			(__force u64)ila->p.ip.locator) ||
-	    nla_put_u64(msg, ILA_ATTR_LOCATOR_MATCH,
-			(__force u64)ila->p.ip.locator_match) ||
+	if (nla_put_u64_64bit(msg, ILA_ATTR_IDENTIFIER,
+			      (__force u64)ila->p.identifier,
+			      ILA_ATTR_PAD) ||
+	    nla_put_u64_64bit(msg, ILA_ATTR_LOCATOR,
+			      (__force u64)ila->p.ip.locator,
+			      ILA_ATTR_PAD) ||
+	    nla_put_u64_64bit(msg, ILA_ATTR_LOCATOR_MATCH,
+			      (__force u64)ila->p.ip.locator_match,
+			      ILA_ATTR_PAD) ||
 	    nla_put_s32(msg, ILA_ATTR_IFINDEX, ila->p.ifindex) ||
 	    nla_put_u32(msg, ILA_ATTR_DIR, ila->p.dir))
 		return -1;