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-rw-r--r--refs/files-backend.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
index a9a066dcfb..c110c2520c 100644
--- a/refs/files-backend.c
+++ b/refs/files-backend.c
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ stat_ref:
/* Follow "normalized" - ie "refs/.." symlinks by hand */
if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
strbuf_reset(&sb_contents);
- if (strbuf_readlink(&sb_contents, path, 0) < 0) {
+ if (strbuf_readlink(&sb_contents, path, st.st_size) < 0) {
if (errno == ENOENT || errno == EINVAL)
/* inconsistent with lstat; retry */
goto stat_ref;