Merge branch 'topic/asoc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 into for-2.6.38

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;