diff --git a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
index 9519113ebc35..024d4bb3028e 100644
--- a/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/iomap/direct-io.c
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static ssize_t iomap_dio_complete(struct iomap_dio *dio)
 	 * ->end_io() when necessary, otherwise a racing buffer read would cache
 	 * zeros from unwritten extents.
 	 */
-	if (!dio->error &&
+	if (!dio->error && dio->size &&
 	    (dio->flags & IOMAP_DIO_WRITE) && inode->i_mapping->nrpages) {
 		int err;
 		err = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(inode->i_mapping,