diff --git a/src/basic/cgroup-util.h b/src/basic/cgroup-util.h
index 1d67174b43..42c03e54b7 100644
--- a/src/basic/cgroup-util.h
+++ b/src/basic/cgroup-util.h
@@ -332,4 +332,4 @@ typedef union {
                 .file_handle.handle_type = FILEID_KERNFS,       \
         }
 
-#define CG_FILE_HANDLE_CGROUPID(fh) (*(uint64_t*) (fh).file_handle.f_handle)
+#define CG_FILE_HANDLE_CGROUPID(fh) (*CAST_ALIGN_PTR(uint64_t, (fh).file_handle.f_handle))
diff --git a/src/basic/pidfd-util.c b/src/basic/pidfd-util.c
index 52a371ba1a..54724a40b0 100644
--- a/src/basic/pidfd-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/pidfd-util.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ int pidfd_get_inode_id(int fd, uint64_t *ret) {
                 r = RET_NERRNO(name_to_handle_at(fd, "", &fh.file_handle, &mnt_id, AT_EMPTY_PATH));
                 if (r >= 0) {
                         if (ret)
-                                *ret = *(uint64_t*) fh.file_handle.f_handle;
+                                *ret = *CAST_ALIGN_PTR(uint64_t, fh.file_handle.f_handle);
                         return 0;
                 }
                 assert(r != -EOVERFLOW);