diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c b/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
index 79d99a9..4cc6e08 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifs_unicode.c
@@ -484,10 +484,21 @@ cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const char *source, int srclen,
 			/**
 			 * Remap spaces and periods found at the end of every
 			 * component of the path. The special cases of '.' and
-			 * '..' do not need to be dealt with explicitly because
-			 * they are addressed in namei.c:link_path_walk().
+			 * '..' are need to be handled because of symlinks.
+			 * They are treated as non-end-of-string to avoid
+			 * remapping and breaking symlinks pointing to . or ..
 			 **/
-			if ((i == srclen - 1) || (source[i+1] == '\\'))
+			if ((i == 0 || source[i-1] == '\\') &&
+			    source[i] == '.' &&
+			    (i == srclen-1 || source[i+1] == '\\'))
+				end_of_string = false; /* "." case */
+			else if (i >= 1 &&
+				 (i == 1 || source[i-2] == '\\') &&
+				 source[i-1] == '.' &&
+				 source[i] == '.' &&
+				 (i == srclen-1 || source[i+1] == '\\'))
+				end_of_string = false; /* ".." case */
+			else if ((i == srclen - 1) || (source[i+1] == '\\'))
 				end_of_string = true;
 			else
 				end_of_string = false;