fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h  |   11 +++++++++++
 fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c |    2 +-
 fs/autofs4/inode.c     |    2 +-
 fs/autofs4/waitq.c     |    2 +-
 fs/pipe.c              |   17 +++++++++++------
 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
index d8d8e7ba6a1e..5817343bad32 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
+++ b/fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h
@@ -269,6 +269,17 @@ int autofs4_fill_super(struct super_block *, void *, int);
 struct autofs_info *autofs4_new_ino(struct autofs_sb_info *);
 void autofs4_clean_ino(struct autofs_info *);
 
+static inline int autofs_prepare_pipe(struct file *pipe)
+{
+	if (!pipe->f_op || !pipe->f_op->write)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!pipe->f_dentry->d_inode->i_pipe)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	/* We want a packet pipe */
+	pipe->f_flags |= O_DIRECT;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /* Queue management functions */
 
 int autofs4_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *,struct dentry *, enum autofs_notify);
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
index 3dfd615afb6b..aa9103f8f01b 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd(struct file *fp,
 			err = -EBADF;
 			goto out;
 		}
-		if (!pipe->f_op || !pipe->f_op->write) {
+		if (autofs_prepare_pipe(pipe) < 0) {
 			err = -EPIPE;
 			fput(pipe);
 			goto out;
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/inode.c b/fs/autofs4/inode.c
index 14c7bc02349e..6e488ebe7784 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/inode.c
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ int autofs4_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent)
 		printk("autofs: could not open pipe file descriptor\n");
 		goto fail_dput;
 	}
-	if (!pipe->f_op || !pipe->f_op->write)
+	if (autofs_prepare_pipe(pipe) < 0)
 		goto fail_fput;
 	sbi->pipe = pipe;
 	sbi->pipefd = pipefd;
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
index da8876d38a7b..f624cd0ff84d 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/waitq.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static int autofs4_write(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
 
 	return (bytes > 0);
 }
-	
+
 static void autofs4_notify_daemon(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
 				 struct autofs_wait_queue *wq,
 				 int type)
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 25feaa3faac0..c65051eb6893 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -346,6 +346,11 @@ static const struct pipe_buf_operations anon_pipe_buf_ops = {
 	.get = generic_pipe_buf_get,
 };
 
+static inline int is_packetized(struct file *file)
+{
+	return (file->f_flags & O_DIRECT) != 0;
+}
+
 static ssize_t
 pipe_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *_iov,
 	   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
@@ -407,7 +412,7 @@ redo:
 			ret += chars;
 			buf->offset += chars;
 			buf->len -= chars;
-			if (!buf->len) {
+			if (!buf->len || is_packetized(filp)) {
 				buf->ops = NULL;
 				ops->release(pipe, buf);
 				curbuf = (curbuf + 1) & (pipe->buffers - 1);
@@ -416,7 +421,7 @@ redo:
 				do_wakeup = 1;
 			}
 			total_len -= chars;
-			if (!total_len)
+			if (!total_len || is_packetized(filp))
 				break;	/* common path: read succeeded */
 		}
 		if (bufs)	/* More to do? */
@@ -490,7 +495,7 @@ pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *_iov,
 
 	/* We try to merge small writes */
 	chars = total_len & (PAGE_SIZE-1); /* size of the last buffer */
-	if (pipe->nrbufs && chars != 0) {
+	if (!is_packetized(filp) && pipe->nrbufs && chars != 0) {
 		int lastbuf = (pipe->curbuf + pipe->nrbufs - 1) &
 							(pipe->buffers - 1);
 		struct pipe_buffer *buf = pipe->bufs + lastbuf;
@@ -1013,7 +1018,7 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(int flags)
 		goto err_dentry;
 	f->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 
-	f->f_flags = O_WRONLY | (flags & O_NONBLOCK);
+	f->f_flags = O_WRONLY | (flags & (O_NONBLOCK | O_DIRECT));
 	f->f_version = 0;
 
 	return f;
@@ -1046,7 +1051,7 @@ struct file *create_read_pipe(struct file *wrf, int flags)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENFILE);
 
 	path_get(&wrf->f_path);
-	f->f_flags = O_RDONLY | (flags & O_NONBLOCK);
+	f->f_flags = O_RDONLY | (flags & (O_NONBLOCK | O_DIRECT));
 
 	return f;
 }
@@ -1057,7 +1062,7 @@ int do_pipe_flags(int *fd, int flags)
 	int error;
 	int fdw, fdr;
 
-	if (flags & ~(O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK))
+	if (flags & ~(O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK | O_DIRECT))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	fw = create_write_pipe(flags);