diff --git a/src/redis-check-rdb.c b/src/redis-check-rdb.c
index a537c6dae..15d183092 100644
--- a/src/redis-check-rdb.c
+++ b/src/redis-check-rdb.c
@@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ void rdbCheckSetupSignals(void) {
     sigaction(SIGABRT, &act, NULL);
 }
 
+static int isFifo(char *filename) {
+    struct stat stat_p;
+    stat(filename, &stat_p);
+    return S_ISFIFO(stat_p.st_mode);
+}
+
 /* Check the specified RDB file. Return 0 if the RDB looks sane, otherwise
  * 1 is returned.
  * The file is specified as a filename in 'rdbfilename' if 'fp' is not NULL,
@@ -199,6 +205,11 @@ int redis_check_rdb(char *rdbfilename, FILE *fp) {
     static rio rdb; /* Pointed by global struct riostate. */
     struct stat sb;
 
+    if (isFifo(rdbfilename)) {
+        /* Cannot check RDB over named pipe because fopen blocks until another process opens the FIFO for writing. */
+        return 1;
+    }
+
     int closefile = (fp == NULL);
     if (fp == NULL && (fp = fopen(rdbfilename,"r")) == NULL) return 1;