diff --git a/lib/wasi/src/state/mod.rs b/lib/wasi/src/state/mod.rs
index 58f94dcd83a..e6e46395a40 100644
--- a/lib/wasi/src/state/mod.rs
+++ b/lib/wasi/src/state/mod.rs
@@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ impl WasiFs {
             pr_type: Preopentype::Dir,
             u: PrestatEnum::Dir {
                 // REVIEW:
-                pr_name_len: inode_val.name.len() as u32 + 1,
+                pr_name_len: inode_val.name.len() as u32, // no need for +1, because there is no 0 end-of-string marker
             }
             .untagged(),
         }
diff --git a/lib/wasi/src/syscalls/mod.rs b/lib/wasi/src/syscalls/mod.rs
index 202fb0b2048..50e69877c17 100644
--- a/lib/wasi/src/syscalls/mod.rs
+++ b/lib/wasi/src/syscalls/mod.rs
@@ -969,13 +969,11 @@ pub fn fd_prestat_dir_name<M: MemorySize>(
     let deref = guard.deref();
     match deref {
         Kind::Dir { .. } | Kind::Root { .. } => {
-            // TODO: verify this: null termination, etc
             let path_len: u64 = path_len.into();
-            if (inode_val.name.len() as u64) < path_len {
+            if (inode_val.name.len() as u64) <= path_len {
                 wasi_try_mem!(path_chars
                     .subslice(0..inode_val.name.len() as u64)
                     .write_slice(inode_val.name.as_bytes()));
-                wasi_try_mem!(path_chars.index(inode_val.name.len() as u64).write(0));
 
                 trace!("=> result: \"{}\"", inode_val.name);