diff --git a/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/sys_getdents.go b/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/sys_getdents.go
index 5766327342..99e131dde7 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/sys_getdents.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/sys_getdents.go
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ const DirentStructBytesWithoutName = 8 + 8 + 2 + 1 + 1
 func getdents(t *kernel.Task, args arch.SyscallArguments, isGetdents64 bool) (uintptr, *kernel.SyscallControl, error) {
 	fd := args[0].Int()
 	addr := args[1].Pointer()
-	size := int(args[2].Uint())
+	size := args[2].Int()
+
 	if size < DirentStructBytesWithoutName {
 		return 0, nil, linuxerr.EINVAL
 	}
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ func getdents(t *kernel.Task, args arch.SyscallArguments, isGetdents64 bool) (ui
 		return 0, nil, err
 	}
 
-	cb := getGetdentsCallback(t, int(allowedSize), size, isGetdents64)
+	cb := getGetdentsCallback(t, int(allowedSize), int(size), isGetdents64)
 	err = file.IterDirents(t, cb)
 	n, _ := t.CopyOutBytes(addr, cb.buf[:cb.copied])
 
diff --git a/test/syscalls/linux/getdents.cc b/test/syscalls/linux/getdents.cc
index e276fc136f..64fc2ad013 100644
--- a/test/syscalls/linux/getdents.cc
+++ b/test/syscalls/linux/getdents.cc
@@ -503,6 +503,22 @@ TYPED_TEST(GetdentsTest, ZeroLengthOutBuffer) {
               SyscallFailsWithErrno(EINVAL));
 }
 
+// Tests that getdents() fails when called with too large size.
+TYPED_TEST(GetdentsTest, TooLargeSize) {
+  auto dir = ASSERT_NO_ERRNO_AND_VALUE(TempPath::CreateDir());
+  auto fd = ASSERT_NO_ERRNO_AND_VALUE(Open(dir.path(), O_DIRECTORY));
+
+  typename TestFixture::DirentBufferType dirents(100);
+  // Try one over the limit.
+  EXPECT_THAT(RetryEINTR(syscall)(this->SyscallNum(), fd.get(), dirents.Data(),
+                                  static_cast<uint32_t>(INT32_MAX) + 1),
+              SyscallFailsWithErrno(EINVAL));
+  // Try way over the limit.
+  EXPECT_THAT(RetryEINTR(syscall)(this->SyscallNum(), fd.get(), dirents.Data(),
+                                  static_cast<uint32_t>(-1)),
+              SyscallFailsWithErrno(EINVAL));
+}
+
 // Some tests using the glibc readdir interface.
 TEST(ReaddirTest, OpenDir) {
   DIR* dev;