posix_fadvise succeeds on FIFO.

From: Valentine Barshak
Date: Tue Dec 06 2005 - 15:34:35 EST


Hello all.
The following issue has been found with posix_fadvise:
the system call succeeds on a pipe or FIFO, although it has to fail with EINVAL return value on linux.
I've attached a small test for posix_fadvise and a patch for linux kernel 2.6.14 that fixes the problem.
The patch makes posix_fadvise return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe in order to be fully POSIX-compliant.
Please, take a look at these. Is it really a bug in kernel?
Thanks.

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main()
{
int retval, fd;

if (mkfifo("fifo", 0666) < 0) {
printf("create fifo error\n");
return 1;
}

fd = open("fifo", O_RDWR);
if (fd < 0) {
printf("open fifo error\n");
remove("fifo");
return 1;
}

retval = posix_fadvise(fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_NORMAL);
if (retval) {
printf("Expected fail - The fd argument is associated with a pipe or FIFO.\n");
if (retval != ESPIPE)
printf("Unexpected ERRNO %d (Expected %d)\n", retval, ESPIPE);
} else
printf("Unexpected success - The fd argument is associated with a pipe or FIFO.\n");

close(fd);
remove("fifo");

if (retval)
return 0;
return 1;
}
--- a/mm/fadvise.c 2005-10-10 22:54:29.000000000 +0400
+++ b/mm/fadvise.c 2005-12-06 23:04:19.980711464 +0300
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@
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;