diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index 4d2404305ab6..95483baab706 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Fix error mapping of the TOO_MANY_LINKS (hardlinks) case.
 Do not oops if root user kills cifs oplock kernel thread or
 kills the cifsd thread (NB: killing the cifs kernel threads is not
 recommended, unmount and rmmod cifs will kill them when they are
-no longer needed).
+no longer needed).  Fix readdir to ASCII servers (ie older servers
+which do not support Unicode) and also require asterik.
+
 
 Version 1.33
 ------------
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index b004fef0a42b..741ff0c69f37 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -2451,12 +2451,14 @@ findFirstRetry:
 		name_len += 2;
 	} else {	/* BB add check for overrun of SMB buf BB */
 		name_len = strnlen(searchName, PATH_MAX);
-		name_len++;	/* trailing null */
 /* BB fix here and in unicode clause above ie
 		if(name_len > buffersize-header)
 			free buffer exit; BB */
 		strncpy(pSMB->FileName, searchName, name_len);
-		pSMB->FileName[name_len] = 0; /* just in case */
+		pSMB->FileName[name_len] = '\\';
+		pSMB->FileName[name_len+1] = '*';
+		pSMB->FileName[name_len+2] = 0;
+		name_len += 3;
 	}
 
 	params = 12 + name_len /* includes null */ ;