diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 7c54ae5fcbd4..30cff983e601 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5010,7 +5010,7 @@ struct inode *__ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino,
 			nd_terminate_link(ei->i_data, inode->i_size,
 				sizeof(ei->i_data) - 1);
 			inode_set_cached_link(inode, (char *)ei->i_data,
-					      inode->i_size);
+					      strlen((char *)ei->i_data));
 		} else {
 			inode->i_op = &ext4_symlink_inode_operations;
 		}