--- a/src/java.base/unix/native/libnio/fs/UnixNativeDispatcher.c	Fri Aug 03 09:42:57 2018 -0700
+++ b/src/java.base/unix/native/libnio/fs/UnixNativeDispatcher.c	Fri Aug 03 12:45:18 2018 -0700
@@ -875,7 +875,10 @@
     } else {
         jsize len;
         if (n == sizeof(target)) {
-            n--;
+            /* Traditionally readlink(2) should not return more than */
+            /* PATH_MAX bytes (no terminating null byte is appended). */
+            throwUnixException(env, ENAMETOOLONG);
+            return NULL;
         }
         target[n] = '\0';
         len = (jsize)strlen(target);