diff --git a/fs/exfat/dir.c b/fs/exfat/dir.c
index 916797077aad4ab45cd73c36a5012fd2653fef33..dedbc55cd48f55f1e895dea0dd56ea590bd17ae3 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/dir.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/dir.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static void exfat_get_uniname_from_ext_entry(struct super_block *sb,
 static int exfat_readdir(struct inode *inode, loff_t *cpos, struct exfat_dir_entry *dir_entry)
 {
 	int i, dentries_per_clu, dentries_per_clu_bits = 0, num_ext;
-	unsigned int type, clu_offset;
+	unsigned int type, clu_offset, max_dentries;
 	sector_t sector;
 	struct exfat_chain dir, clu;
 	struct exfat_uni_name uni_name;
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ static int exfat_readdir(struct inode *inode, loff_t *cpos, struct exfat_dir_ent
 
 	dentries_per_clu = sbi->dentries_per_clu;
 	dentries_per_clu_bits = ilog2(dentries_per_clu);
+	max_dentries = (unsigned int)min_t(u64, MAX_EXFAT_DENTRIES,
+					   (u64)sbi->num_clusters << dentries_per_clu_bits);
 
 	clu_offset = dentry >> dentries_per_clu_bits;
 	exfat_chain_dup(&clu, &dir);
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ static int exfat_readdir(struct inode *inode, loff_t *cpos, struct exfat_dir_ent
 		}
 	}
 
-	while (clu.dir != EXFAT_EOF_CLUSTER) {
+	while (clu.dir != EXFAT_EOF_CLUSTER && dentry < max_dentries) {
 		i = dentry & (dentries_per_clu - 1);
 
 		for ( ; i < dentries_per_clu; i++, dentry++) {
@@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ static int exfat_iterate(struct file *filp, struct dir_context *ctx)
 	if (err)
 		goto unlock;
 get_new:
-	if (cpos >= i_size_read(inode))
+	if (ei->flags == ALLOC_NO_FAT_CHAIN && cpos >= i_size_read(inode))
 		goto end_of_dir;
 
 	err = exfat_readdir(inode, &cpos, &de);