From 87ba81dba431232548ce29d5d224115d0c2355ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:03:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fadvise: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe

The patch makes posix_fadvise return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe in order to be
fully POSIX-compliant.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 mm/fadvise.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'mm/fadvise.c')

diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c
index 5f19e87bc5af..d257c89e7704 100644
--- a/mm/fadvise.c
+++ b/mm/fadvise.c
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
 	if (!file)
 		return -EBADF;
 
+	if (S_ISFIFO(file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
+		ret = -ESPIPE;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	if (!mapping || len < 0) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
-- 
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