diff --git a/internal/ioutil/ioutil.go b/internal/ioutil/ioutil.go
index 9692a09bd..196f19572 100644
--- a/internal/ioutil/ioutil.go
+++ b/internal/ioutil/ioutil.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package ioutil
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"sync"
@@ -348,6 +349,10 @@ const DirectioAlignSize = 4096
 // input writer *os.File not a generic io.Writer. Make sure to have
 // the file opened for writes with syscall.O_DIRECT flag.
 func CopyAligned(w io.Writer, r io.Reader, alignedBuf []byte, totalSize int64, file *os.File) (int64, error) {
+	if totalSize == 0 {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+
 	// Writes remaining bytes in the buffer.
 	writeUnaligned := func(w io.Writer, buf []byte) (remainingWritten int64, err error) {
 		// Disable O_DIRECT on fd's on unaligned buffer
@@ -364,17 +369,19 @@ func CopyAligned(w io.Writer, r io.Reader, alignedBuf []byte, totalSize int64, f
 	var written int64
 	for {
 		buf := alignedBuf
-		if totalSize != -1 {
+		if totalSize > 0 {
 			remaining := totalSize - written
 			if remaining < int64(len(buf)) {
 				buf = buf[:remaining]
 			}
 		}
+
 		nr, err := io.ReadFull(r, buf)
-		eof := err == io.EOF || err == io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
+		eof := errors.Is(err, io.EOF) || errors.Is(err, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF)
 		if err != nil && !eof {
 			return written, err
 		}
+
 		buf = buf[:nr]
 		var nw int64
 		if len(buf)%DirectioAlignSize == 0 {
@@ -386,22 +393,30 @@ func CopyAligned(w io.Writer, r io.Reader, alignedBuf []byte, totalSize int64, f
 			// buf is not aligned, hence use writeUnaligned()
 			nw, err = writeUnaligned(w, buf)
 		}
+
 		if nw > 0 {
 			written += nw
 		}
+
 		if err != nil {
 			return written, err
 		}
+
 		if nw != int64(len(buf)) {
 			return written, io.ErrShortWrite
 		}
 
-		if totalSize != -1 {
-			if written == totalSize {
-				return written, nil
-			}
+		if totalSize > 0 && written == totalSize {
+			// we have written the entire stream, return right here.
+			return written, nil
 		}
+
 		if eof {
+			// We reached EOF prematurely but we did not write everything
+			// that we promised that we would write.
+			if totalSize > 0 && written != totalSize {
+				return written, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
+			}
 			return written, nil
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/internal/ioutil/ioutil_test.go b/internal/ioutil/ioutil_test.go
index 921e78ecb..37efea3cc 100644
--- a/internal/ioutil/ioutil_test.go
+++ b/internal/ioutil/ioutil_test.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2015-2021 MinIO, Inc.
+// Copyright (c) 2015-2023 MinIO, Inc.
 //
 // This file is part of MinIO Object Storage stack
 //
@@ -20,8 +20,10 @@ package ioutil
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"io"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -205,3 +207,36 @@ func TestSameFile(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("Expected the files not to be same")
 	}
 }
+
+func TestCopyAligned(t *testing.T) {
+	f, err := os.CreateTemp("", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("Error creating tmp file: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+	defer os.Remove(f.Name())
+
+	r := strings.NewReader("hello world")
+
+	bufp := ODirectPoolSmall.Get().(*[]byte)
+	defer ODirectPoolSmall.Put(bufp)
+
+	written, err := CopyAligned(f, io.LimitReader(r, 5), *bufp, r.Size(), f)
+	if !errors.Is(err, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF) {
+		t.Errorf("Expected io.ErrUnexpectedEOF, but got %v", err)
+	}
+	if written != 5 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected written to be '5', but got %v", written)
+	}
+
+	f.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
+	r.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
+
+	written, err = CopyAligned(f, r, *bufp, r.Size(), f)
+	if !errors.Is(err, nil) {
+		t.Errorf("Expected nil, but got %v", err)
+	}
+	if written != r.Size() {
+		t.Errorf("Expected written to be '%v', but got %v", r.Size(), written)
+	}
+}