diff --git a/fs/smb/client/reparse.c b/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
index 74abbdf5026c73..90da1e2b6217b6 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
 	u16 len, plen;
 	int rc = 0;
 
+	if (strlen(symname) > REPARSE_SYM_PATH_MAX)
+		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
+
 	sym = kstrdup(symname, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sym)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -64,7 +67,7 @@ int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
 	if (rc < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	plen = 2 * UniStrnlen((wchar_t *)path, PATH_MAX);
+	plen = 2 * UniStrnlen((wchar_t *)path, REPARSE_SYM_PATH_MAX);
 	len = sizeof(*buf) + plen * 2;
 	buf = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf) {
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/reparse.h b/fs/smb/client/reparse.h
index 158e7b7aae646c..2a9f4f9f79de08 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/reparse.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/reparse.h
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 #include "fs_context.h"
 #include "cifsglob.h"
 
+#define REPARSE_SYM_PATH_MAX 4060
+
 /*
  * Used only by cifs.ko to ignore reparse points from files when client or
  * server doesn't support FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT.