new helper: file_inode(file)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 6909d89d0da5..963213d56403 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *in, struct splice_desc *sd,
          * randomly drop data for eg socket -> socket splicing. Use the
          * piped splicing for that!
          */
-        i_mode = in->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode;
+        i_mode = file_inode(in)->i_mode;
         if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode)))
                 return -EINVAL;