diff --git a/fs/cifs/sess.c b/fs/cifs/sess.c
index f6728eb6f4b9..2e2c91103529 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/sess.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/sess.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static void ascii_ssetup_strings(char **pbcc_area, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
 }
 
 static void
-decode_unicode_ssetup(char **pbcc_area, __u16 bleft, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
+decode_unicode_ssetup(char **pbcc_area, int bleft, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
 		      const struct nls_table *nls_cp)
 {
 	int len;
@@ -284,19 +284,6 @@ decode_unicode_ssetup(char **pbcc_area, __u16 bleft, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
 
 	cFYI(1, "bleft %d", bleft);
 
-	/*
-	 * Windows servers do not always double null terminate their final
-	 * Unicode string. Check to see if there are an uneven number of bytes
-	 * left. If so, then add an extra NULL pad byte to the end of the
-	 * response.
-	 *
-	 * See section 2.7.2 in "Implementing CIFS" for details
-	 */
-	if (bleft % 2) {
-		data[bleft] = 0;
-		++bleft;
-	}
-
 	kfree(ses->serverOS);
 	ses->serverOS = cifs_strndup_from_ucs(data, bleft, true, nls_cp);
 	cFYI(1, "serverOS=%s", ses->serverOS);