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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;
/*