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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-12-22 18:57:02 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-12-22 18:57:02 +0100
commit4b7bd364700d9ac8372eff48832062b936d0793b (patch)
tree0dbf78c95456a0b02d07fcd473281f04a87e266d /fs/pipe.c
parentanon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment (diff)
parentLinux 2.6.37-rc7 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too outdated.
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pipe.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index a8012a955720..04629f36e397 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -1199,12 +1199,24 @@ int pipe_proc_fn(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buf,
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * After the inode slimming patch, i_pipe/i_bdev/i_cdev share the same
+ * location, so checking ->i_pipe is not enough to verify that this is a
+ * pipe.
+ */
+struct pipe_inode_info *get_pipe_info(struct file *file)
+{
+ struct inode *i = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+
+ return S_ISFIFO(i->i_mode) ? i->i_pipe : NULL;
+}
+
long pipe_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
long ret;
- pipe = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_pipe;
+ pipe = get_pipe_info(file);
if (!pipe)
return -EBADF;