fs/pipe.c: add ->statfs callback for pipefs

Currently a statfs on a pipe's /proc/<pid>/fd/ link returns -ENOSYS.  Wire
pipfs up so that the statfs succeeds.

This is required by checkpoint-restart in the userspace to make it
possible to distinguish pipes from fifos.

When we dump information about task's open files we use the /proc/pid/fd
directoy's symlinks and the fact that opening any of them gives us exactly
the same dentry->inode pair as the original process has.  Now if a task
we're dumping has opened pipe and fifo we need to detect this and act
accordingly.  Knowing that an fd with type S_ISFIFO resides on a pipefs is
the most precise way.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 0e0be1dc0f8ef67e433cefb9d46c708b2a2ca52d..4065f07366b37e2982b1841aeaf308492a351a3d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -1254,6 +1254,7 @@ out:
 
 static const struct super_operations pipefs_ops = {
        .destroy_inode = free_inode_nonrcu,
+       .statfs = simple_statfs,
 };
 
 /*