diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f3874fd22..a848ffed7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   than ignoring the -d option and failing with an 'Is a directory' error.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-8.19, with the addition of --dir (-d)]
 
+  rm -r S/ (where S is a symlink-to-directory) no longer gives the invalid
+  "Too many levels of symbolic links" diagnostic.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.6]
+
 ** Improvements
 
   stat and tail work better with ZFS.  stat -f --format=%T now reports the
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index 68f693ff1..3a9002d3c 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 68f693ff1db33bf24695f0f42c62e7801966fd06
+Subproject commit 3a9002d3cc63da7110f133b1040d2d2b0aad8305
diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c
index 69faae6de..847a5cc4a 100644
--- a/src/remove.c
+++ b/src/remove.c
@@ -433,9 +433,6 @@ rm_fts (FTS *fts, FTSENT *ent, struct rm_options const *x)
       /* Perform checks that can apply only for command-line arguments.  */
       if (ent->fts_level == FTS_ROOTLEVEL)
         {
-          if (strip_trailing_slashes (ent->fts_path))
-            ent->fts_pathlen = strlen (ent->fts_path);
-
           /* If the basename of a command line argument is "." or "..",
              diagnose it and do nothing more with that argument.  */
           if (dot_or_dotdot (last_component (ent->fts_accpath)))
diff --git a/tests/rm/v-slash.sh b/tests/rm/v-slash.sh
index 504f4ffb8..ec77bd063 100755
--- a/tests/rm/v-slash.sh
+++ b/tests/rm/v-slash.sh
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ touch a/x || framework_failure_
 rm --verbose -r a/// > out || fail=1
 cat <<\EOF > exp || fail=1
 removed 'a/x'
-removed directory: 'a'
+removed directory: 'a/'
 EOF
 
 compare exp out || fail=1