diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index c1d3f4bea5..f36a3821a7 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ case $AFS_SYSNAME in *_linux* | *_umlinux*)
 		 AC_CHECK_LINUX_STRUCT([cred], [session_keyring], [cred.h])
 		 AC_CHECK_LINUX_STRUCT([ctl_table], [ctl_name], [sysctl.h])
 		 AC_CHECK_LINUX_STRUCT([dentry_operations], [d_automount], [dcache.h])
+		 AC_CHECK_LINUX_STRUCT([file_operations], [writev], [fs.h])
 		 AC_CHECK_LINUX_STRUCT([inode], [i_alloc_sem], [fs.h])
 		 AC_CHECK_LINUX_STRUCT([inode], [i_blkbits], [fs.h])
 		 AC_CHECK_LINUX_STRUCT([inode], [i_blksize], [fs.h])
diff --git a/src/afs/LINUX/osi_vnodeops.c b/src/afs/LINUX/osi_vnodeops.c
index 64b5fdfd5e..825ad51111 100644
--- a/src/afs/LINUX/osi_vnodeops.c
+++ b/src/afs/LINUX/osi_vnodeops.c
@@ -791,6 +791,10 @@ struct file_operations afs_file_fops = {
 #ifdef HAVE_LINUX_GENERIC_FILE_AIO_READ
   .aio_read =	afs_linux_aio_read,
   .aio_write =	afs_linux_aio_write,
+#ifdef STRUCT_FILE_OPERATIONS_HAS_WRITEV
+  .read =	do_sync_read,
+  .write =	do_sync_write,
+#endif
 #else
   .read =	afs_linux_read,
   .write =	afs_linux_write,