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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/splice.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index 047b79db8eb5..93a2c9bf6249 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -814,17 +814,15 @@ 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 being a regular file, as we don't want to - * randomly drop data for eg socket -> socket splicing. Use the - * piped splicing for that! + * 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! */ - i_mode = file_inode(in)->i_mode; - if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode))) + if (unlikely(!(in->f_mode & FMODE_LSEEK))) return -EINVAL; /* |