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diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 0285ce7dbd51..a00350018a47 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -733,6 +733,12 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
return 0;
}
+ /* Any file opened for execve()/uselib() has to be a regular file. */
+ if (unlikely(f->f_flags & FMODE_EXEC && !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))) {
+ error = -EACCES;
+ goto cleanup_file;
+ }
+
if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE && !special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
error = get_write_access(inode);
if (unlikely(error))
@@ -1209,3 +1215,21 @@ int nonseekable_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(nonseekable_open);
+
+/*
+ * stream_open is used by subsystems that want stream-like file descriptors.
+ * Such file descriptors are not seekable and don't have notion of position
+ * (file.f_pos is always 0). Contrary to file descriptors of other regular
+ * files, .read() and .write() can run simultaneously.
+ *
+ * stream_open never fails and is marked to return int so that it could be
+ * directly used as file_operations.open .
+ */
+int stream_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
+{
+ filp->f_mode &= ~(FMODE_LSEEK | FMODE_PREAD | FMODE_PWRITE | FMODE_ATOMIC_POS);
+ filp->f_mode |= FMODE_STREAM;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(stream_open);