s only about block and char devices, and fifos can't even be added to the whitelist, so fifos can't be created at all except by tasks which have 'a' in their whitelist (meaning they have access to all devices). Fix the behavior by bypassing access checks to mkfifo. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Paul Menage Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: James Morris Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano Cc: [2.6.27.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds +¿–R›)x