diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 3fc8d4ab8e45..a6ab4e8de0a1 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 07f405541892bd9bab4cca6c12499091ef4dd556
+refs/heads/master: efc968d450e013049a662d22727cf132618dcb2f
diff --git a/trunk/fs/splice.c b/trunk/fs/splice.c
index 1bbc6f4bb09c..a1e701c27156 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/splice.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/splice.c
@@ -898,6 +898,9 @@ static long do_splice_from(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
 	if (unlikely(!(out->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)))
 		return -EBADF;
 
+	if (unlikely(out->f_flags & O_APPEND))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	ret = rw_verify_area(WRITE, out, ppos, len);
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0))
 		return ret;