fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
With packetized mode for pipes, it's not possible to set O_DIRECT on pipe file
via sys_fcntl, because of unsupported sanity checks.
Ability to set this flag will be used by CRIU to migrate packetized pipes.
v2:
Fixed typos and mode variable to check.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index ee85cd4..350a2c8 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@
if (arg & O_NDELAY)
arg |= O_NONBLOCK;
- if (arg & O_DIRECT) {
+ /* Pipe packetized mode is controlled by O_DIRECT flag */
+ if (!S_ISFIFO(filp->f_inode->i_mode) && (arg & O_DIRECT)) {
if (!filp->f_mapping || !filp->f_mapping->a_ops ||
!filp->f_mapping->a_ops->direct_IO)
return -EINVAL;