--- /dev/null
+From bc3616dd8ea948c52d9a3d0c877fded1eb7f24eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 07:18:38 -0400
+Subject: Revert "fs: check FMODE_LSEEK to control internal pipe splicing"
+
+This reverts commit fd0a6e99b61e6c08fa5cf585d54fd956f70c73a6.
+
+Which was upstream commit 97ef77c52b789ec1411d360ed99dca1efe4b2c81.
+
+The commit is missing dependencies and breaks NFS tests, remove it for
+now.
+
+Reported-by: Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi@oracle.com>
+Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+---
+ fs/splice.c | 10 ++++++----
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
+index ae5623244d5e..e509239d7e06 100644
+--- a/fs/splice.c
++++ b/fs/splice.c
+@@ -895,15 +895,17 @@ ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *in, struct splice_desc *sd,
+ {
+ struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
+ long ret, bytes;
++ umode_t i_mode;
+ size_t len;
+ int i, flags, more;
+
+ /*
+- * We require the input to be seekable, as we don't want to randomly
+- * drop data for eg socket -> socket splicing. Use the piped splicing
+- * for that!
++ * We require the input being a regular file, as we don't want to
++ * randomly drop data for eg socket -> socket splicing. Use the
++ * piped splicing for that!
+ */
+- if (unlikely(!(in->f_mode & FMODE_LSEEK)))
++ i_mode = file_inode(in)->i_mode;
++ if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
+--
+2.35.1
+