Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index f73492b6817ea..3499f9ff6316b 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -1076,6 +1076,23 @@ int do_pipe(int *fd)
 }
 
 /*
+ * sys_pipe() is the normal C calling standard for creating
+ * a pipe. It's not the way Unix traditionally does this, though.
+ */
+asmlinkage long __weak sys_pipe(int __user *fildes)
+{
+	int fd[2];
+	int error;
+
+	error = do_pipe(fd);
+	if (!error) {
+		if (copy_to_user(fildes, fd, sizeof(fd)))
+			error = -EFAULT;
+	}
+	return error;
+}
+
+/*
  * pipefs should _never_ be mounted by userland - too much of security hassle,
  * no real gain from having the whole whorehouse mounted. So we don't need
  * any operations on the root directory. However, we need a non-trivial