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diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index f73492b6817e..3499f9ff6316 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