diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index c84ac7e97e21..04d25af25a42 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -898,17 +898,15 @@ 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 being a regular file, as we don't want to
-	 * randomly drop data for eg socket -> socket splicing. Use the
-	 * piped splicing for that!
+	 * 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!
 	 */
-	i_mode = file_inode(in)->i_mode;
-	if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode)))
+	if (unlikely(!(in->f_mode & FMODE_LSEEK)))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/*