diff --git a/fs/readdir.c b/fs/readdir.c
index 579c8ea894ae..19bea591c3f1 100644
--- a/fs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/readdir.c
@@ -118,6 +118,40 @@ out:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(iterate_dir);
 
+/*
+ * POSIX says that a dirent name cannot contain NULL or a '/'.
+ *
+ * It's not 100% clear what we should really do in this case.
+ * The filesystem is clearly corrupted, but returning a hard
+ * error means that you now don't see any of the other names
+ * either, so that isn't a perfect alternative.
+ *
+ * And if you return an error, what error do you use? Several
+ * filesystems seem to have decided on EUCLEAN being the error
+ * code for EFSCORRUPTED, and that may be the error to use. Or
+ * just EIO, which is perhaps more obvious to users.
+ *
+ * In order to see the other file names in the directory, the
+ * caller might want to make this a "soft" error: skip the
+ * entry, and return the error at the end instead.
+ *
+ * Note that this should likely do a "memchr(name, 0, len)"
+ * check too, since that would be filesystem corruption as
+ * well. However, that case can't actually confuse user space,
+ * which has to do a strlen() on the name anyway to find the
+ * filename length, and the above "soft error" worry means
+ * that it's probably better left alone until we have that
+ * issue clarified.
+ */
+static int verify_dirent_name(const char *name, int len)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!len))
+		return -EIO;
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(memchr(name, '/', len)))
+		return -EIO;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * Traditional linux readdir() handling..
  *
@@ -227,6 +261,9 @@ static int filldir(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen,
 	int reclen = ALIGN(offsetof(struct linux_dirent, d_name) + namlen + 2,
 		sizeof(long));
 
+	buf->error = verify_dirent_name(name, namlen);
+	if (unlikely(buf->error))
+		return buf->error;
 	buf->error = -EINVAL;	/* only used if we fail.. */
 	if (reclen > buf->count)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -316,6 +353,9 @@ static int filldir64(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen,
 	int reclen = ALIGN(offsetof(struct linux_dirent64, d_name) + namlen + 1,
 		sizeof(u64));
 
+	buf->error = verify_dirent_name(name, namlen);
+	if (unlikely(buf->error))
+		return buf->error;
 	buf->error = -EINVAL;	/* only used if we fail.. */
 	if (reclen > buf->count)
 		return -EINVAL;