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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/splice.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/splice.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index ef1604e307f1..fd28c7da3c83 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -899,15 +899,17 @@ ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *in, struct splice_desc *sd, { struct pipe_inode_info *pipe; long ret, bytes; + umode_t i_mode; size_t len; int i, flags, more; /* - * We require the input to be seekable, as we don't want to randomly - * drop data for eg socket -> socket splicing. Use the piped splicing - * for that! + * We require the input being a regular file, as we don't want to + * randomly drop data for eg socket -> socket splicing. Use the + * piped splicing for that! */ - if (unlikely(!(in->f_mode & FMODE_LSEEK))) + i_mode = file_inode(in)->i_mode; + if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode))) return -EINVAL; /* |