diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h b/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h
index 0923f72d27e9..f6e235001358 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h
@@ -1785,6 +1785,7 @@ struct smb_com_transaction2_sfi_req {
 	__u16 Fid;
 	__le16 InformationLevel;
 	__u16 Reserved4;
+	__u8  payload[];
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
 struct smb_com_transaction2_sfi_rsp {
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 58ebec4d4413..ea12fa6eacb6 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -3009,7 +3009,8 @@ CIFSUnixCreateHardLink(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon,
 				InformationLevel) - 4;
 	offset = param_offset + params;
 
-	data_offset = (char *) (&pSMB->hdr.Protocol) + offset;
+	/* SMB offsets are from the beginning of SMB which is 4 bytes in, after RFC1001 field */
+	data_offset = (char *)pSMB + offset + 4;
 	if (pSMB->hdr.Flags2 & SMBFLG2_UNICODE) {
 		name_len_target =
 		    cifsConvertToUTF16((__le16 *) data_offset, fromName,