disk: After opening blkdev, check that it is really block device

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/disk.c b/src/disk.c
index b0d4499..c8d218c 100644
--- a/src/disk.c
+++ b/src/disk.c
@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ int disk_open_dev(int maj, int min, int partition, int readonly) {
 		if ( fd < 0 ) {
 			errno = old_errno;
 			ERROR_INFO("Cannot open block device %s", blkdev);
+		} else if ( fstat(fd, &st) != 0 || ! S_ISBLK(st.st_mode) ) {
+			ERROR("Block device %s is not block device\n", blkdev);
+			close(fd);
+			return -1;
 		}
 
 	} else {