--- /dev/null
+From 149a4fddd0a72d526abbeac0c8deaab03559836a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 10:41:57 -0400
+Subject: nfs: don't create zero-length requests
+
+From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
+
+commit 149a4fddd0a72d526abbeac0c8deaab03559836a upstream.
+
+NFS doesn't expect requests with wb_bytes set to zero and may make
+unexpected decisions about how to handle that request at the page IO layer.
+Skip request creation if we won't have any wb_bytes in the request.
+
+Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
+Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
+Reviewed-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@primarydata.com>
+Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+---
+ fs/nfs/write.c | 5 ++++-
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
++++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
+@@ -965,6 +965,9 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, st
+ dprintk("NFS: nfs_updatepage(%pD2 %d@%lld)\n",
+ file, count, (long long)(page_file_offset(page) + offset));
+
++ if (!count)
++ goto out;
++
+ if (nfs_can_extend_write(file, page, inode)) {
+ count = max(count + offset, nfs_page_length(page));
+ offset = 0;
+@@ -975,7 +978,7 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, st
+ nfs_set_pageerror(page);
+ else
+ __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
+-
++out:
+ dprintk("NFS: nfs_updatepage returns %d (isize %lld)\n",
+ status, (long long)i_size_read(inode));
+ return status;