diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index b7b6e740df4d..af0da6c7fc7a 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -3948,6 +3948,7 @@ ext/File-Glob/t/basic.t		See if File::Glob works
 ext/File-Glob/t/case.t		See if File::Glob works
 ext/File-Glob/t/global.t	See if File::Glob works
 ext/File-Glob/t/rt114984.t	See if File::Glob works
+ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t	See if File::Glob works
 ext/File-Glob/t/taint.t		See if File::Glob works
 ext/File-Glob/t/threads.t	See if File::Glob + threads works
 ext/File-Glob/TODO		File::Glob extension todo list
diff --git a/ext/File-Glob/bsd_glob.c b/ext/File-Glob/bsd_glob.c
index 821ef200ad6c..e96fb7356abe 100644
--- a/ext/File-Glob/bsd_glob.c
+++ b/ext/File-Glob/bsd_glob.c
@@ -563,8 +563,12 @@ glob0(const Char *pattern, glob_t *pglob)
 			break;
 		case BG_STAR:
 			pglob->gl_flags |= GLOB_MAGCHAR;
-			/* collapse adjacent stars to one,
-			 * to avoid exponential behavior
+                        /* Collapse adjacent stars to one.
+                         * This is required to ensure that a pattern like
+                         * "a**" matches a name like "a", as without this
+                         * check when the first star matched everything it would
+                         * cause the second star to return a match fail.
+                         * As long ** is folded here this does not happen.
 			 */
 			if (bufnext == patbuf || bufnext[-1] != M_ALL)
 				*bufnext++ = M_ALL;
@@ -909,35 +913,56 @@ globextend(const Char *path, glob_t *pglob, size_t *limitp)
 
 
 /*
- * pattern matching function for filenames.  Each occurrence of the *
- * pattern causes a recursion level.
+ * pattern matching function for filenames using state machine to avoid
+ * recursion. We maintain a "nextp" and "nextn" to allow us to backtrack
+ * without additional callframes, and to do cleanly prune the backtracking
+ * state when multiple '*' (start) matches are included in the patter.
+ *
+ * Thanks to Russ Cox for the improved state machine logic to avoid quadratic
+ * matching on failure.
+ *
+ * https://research.swtch.com/glob
+ *
+ * An example would be a pattern
+ *  ("a*" x 100) . "y"
+ * against a file name like
+ *  ("a" x 100) . "x"
+ *
  */
 static int
 match(Char *name, Char *pat, Char *patend, int nocase)
 {
 	int ok, negate_range;
 	Char c, k;
+	Char *nextp = NULL;
+	Char *nextn = NULL;
 
+    loop:
 	while (pat < patend) {
 		c = *pat++;
 		switch (c & M_MASK) {
 		case M_ALL:
 			if (pat == patend)
 				return(1);
-			do
-			    if (match(name, pat, patend, nocase))
-				    return(1);
-			while (*name++ != BG_EOS)
-				;
-			return(0);
+	                if (*name == BG_EOS)
+	                        return 0;
+			nextn = name + 1;
+	                nextp = pat - 1;
+			break;
 		case M_ONE:
+                        /* since * matches leftmost-shortest first   *
+                         * if we encounter the EOS then backtracking *
+                         * will not help, so we can exit early here. */
 			if (*name++ == BG_EOS)
-				return(0);
+                                return 0;
 			break;
 		case M_SET:
 			ok = 0;
+                        /* since * matches leftmost-shortest first   *
+                         * if we encounter the EOS then backtracking *
+                         * will not help, so we can exit early here. */
 			if ((k = *name++) == BG_EOS)
-				return(0);
+                                return 0;
 			if ((negate_range = ((*pat & M_MASK) == M_NOT)) != BG_EOS)
 				++pat;
 			while (((c = *pat++) & M_MASK) != M_END)
@@ -953,16 +978,25 @@ match(Char *name, Char *pat, Char *patend, int nocase)
 				} else if (nocase ? (tolower(c) == tolower(k)) : (c == k))
 					ok = 1;
 			if (ok == negate_range)
-				return(0);
+				goto fail;
 			break;
 		default:
 			k = *name++;
 			if (nocase ? (tolower(k) != tolower(c)) : (k != c))
-				return(0);
+				goto fail;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-	return(*name == BG_EOS);
+	if (*name == BG_EOS)
+		return 1;
+
+    fail:
+	if (nextn) {
+		pat = nextp;
+		name = nextn;
+		goto loop;
+	}
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /* Free allocated data belonging to a glob_t structure. */
diff --git a/ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t b/ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c1bcbe04e8ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ext/File-Glob/t/rt131211.t
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use v5.16.0;
+use File::Temp 'tempdir';
+use File::Spec::Functions;
+use Test::More;
+use Time::HiRes qw(time);
+
+plan tests => 13;
+
+my $path = tempdir uc cleanup => 1;
+my @files= (
+    "x".("a" x 50)."b", # 0
+    "abbbbbbbbbbbbc",   # 1
+    "abbbbbbbbbbbbd",   # 2
+    "aaabaaaabaaaabc",  # 3
+    "pq",               # 4
+    "r",                # 5
+    "rttiiiiiii",       # 6
+    "wewewewewewe",     # 7
+    "weeeweeeweee",     # 8
+    "weewweewweew",     # 9
+    "wewewewewewewewewewewewewewewewewq", # 10
+    "wtttttttetttttttwr", # 11
+);
+
+
+foreach (@files) {
+    open(my $f, ">", catfile $path, $_);
+}
+
+my $elapsed_fail= 0;
+my $elapsed_match= 0;
+my @got_files;
+my @no_files;
+my $count = 0;
+
+while (++$count < 10) {
+    $elapsed_match -= time;
+    @got_files= glob catfile $path, "x".("a*" x $count) . "b";
+    $elapsed_match += time;
+
+    $elapsed_fail -= time;
+    @no_files= glob catfile $path, "x".("a*" x $count) . "c";
+    $elapsed_fail += time;
+    last if $elapsed_fail > $elapsed_match * 100;
+}
+
+is $count,10,
+    "tried all the patterns without bailing out";
+
+cmp_ok $elapsed_fail/$elapsed_match,"<",2,
+    "time to fail less than twice the time to match";
+is "@got_files", catfile($path, $files[0]),
+    "only got the expected file for xa*..b";
+is "@no_files", "", "shouldnt have files for xa*..c";
+
+
+@got_files= glob catfile $path, "a*b*b*b*bc";
+is "@got_files", catfile($path, $files[1]),
+    "only got the expected file for a*b*b*b*bc";
+
+@got_files= sort glob catfile $path, "a*b*b*bc";
+is "@got_files", catfile($path, $files[3])." ".catfile($path,$files[1]),
+    "got the expected two files for a*b*b*bc";
+
+@got_files= sort glob catfile $path, "p*";
+is "@got_files", catfile($path, $files[4]),
+    "p* matches pq";
+
+@got_files= sort glob catfile $path, "r*???????";
+is "@got_files", catfile($path, $files[6]),
+    "r*??????? works as expected";
+
+@got_files= sort glob catfile $path, "w*e*w??e";
+is "@got_files", join(" ", sort map { catfile($path, $files[$_]) } (7,8)),
+    "w*e*w??e works as expected";
+
+@got_files= sort glob catfile $path, "w*e*we??";
+is "@got_files", join(" ", sort map { catfile($path, $files[$_]) } (7,8,9,10)),
+    "w*e*we?? works as expected";
+
+@got_files= sort glob catfile $path, "w**e**w";
+is "@got_files", join(" ", sort map { catfile($path, $files[$_]) } (9)),
+    "w**e**w works as expected";
+
+@got_files= sort glob catfile $path, "*wee*";
+is "@got_files", join(" ", sort map { catfile($path, $files[$_]) } (8,9)),
+    "*wee* works as expected";
+
+@got_files= sort glob catfile $path, "we*";
+is "@got_files", join(" ", sort map { catfile($path, $files[$_]) } (7,8,9,10)),
+    "we* works as expected";
+