This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "fs: check FMODE_LSEEK to control internal pipe splicing" to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: revert-fs-check-fmode_lseek-to-control-internal-pipe.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0dfdd2724b00061970f033fbc15439a33828be9b Author: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Oct 15 07:18:38 2022 -0400 Revert "fs: check FMODE_LSEEK to control internal pipe splicing" This reverts commit fd0a6e99b61e6c08fa5cf585d54fd956f70c73a6. Which was upstream commit 97ef77c52b789ec1411d360ed99dca1efe4b2c81. The commit is missing dependencies and breaks NFS tests, remove it for now. Reported-by: Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index 6610e55c0e2a..866d5c2367b2 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -806,15 +806,17 @@ 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 to be seekable, as we don't want to randomly - * drop data for eg socket -> socket splicing. Use the piped splicing - * for that! + * 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! */ - if (unlikely(!(in->f_mode & FMODE_LSEEK))) + i_mode = file_inode(in)->i_mode; + if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode))) return -EINVAL; /*