diff --git a/src/swtpm/ctrlchannel.c b/src/swtpm/ctrlchannel.c
index f76a68b..f847960 100644
--- a/src/swtpm/ctrlchannel.c
+++ b/src/swtpm/ctrlchannel.c
@@ -691,7 +691,12 @@ int ctrlchannel_process_fd(int fd,
 
         data = (ptm_hdata *)&output.body;
 
-        data->u.resp.tpm_result = htobe32(res);
+	/* gcc-11 flags this code with a diagnostic.  I'm not sure the diagnostic
+	   is valid, but regardless, this is reasonable workaround.  Essentially
+	   we are trying to obfuscate the above cast and store below from the
+	   analysis for out of bounds object access diagnostics.  */
+	uint32_t __x = htobe32(res);
+	memcpy (&data->u.resp.tpm_result, &__x, sizeof (__x));
         out_len = sizeof(data->u.resp.tpm_result);
 
         break;