diff --git a/libarchive/archive_string.c b/libarchive/archive_string.c
index 554533e..f881331 100644
--- a/libarchive/archive_string.c
+++ b/libarchive/archive_string.c
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ archive_wstring_append_from_mbs(struct archive_wstring *dest,
 	 * No single byte will be more than one wide character,
 	 * so this length estimate will always be big enough.
 	 */
-	size_t wcs_length = len;
+	//size_t wcs_length = len;
 	size_t mbs_length = len;
 	const char *mbs = p;
 	wchar_t *wcs;
@@ -600,7 +600,11 @@ archive_wstring_append_from_mbs(struct archive_wstring *dest,
 
 	memset(&shift_state, 0, sizeof(shift_state));
 #endif
-	if (NULL == archive_wstring_ensure(dest, dest->length + wcs_length + 1))
+	/*
+	 * As we decided to have wcs_length == mbs_length == len
+	 * we can use len here instead of wcs_length
+	 */
+	if (NULL == archive_wstring_ensure(dest, dest->length + len + 1))
 		return (-1);
 	wcs = dest->s + dest->length;
 	/*
@@ -609,6 +613,12 @@ archive_wstring_append_from_mbs(struct archive_wstring *dest,
 	 * multi bytes.
 	 */
 	while (*mbs && mbs_length > 0) {
+		/*
+		 * The buffer we allocated is always big enough.
+		 * Keep this code path in a comment if we decide to choose
+		 * smaller wcs_length in the future
+		 */
+/*
 		if (wcs_length == 0) {
 			dest->length = wcs - dest->s;
 			dest->s[dest->length] = L'\0';
@@ -618,24 +628,20 @@ archive_wstring_append_from_mbs(struct archive_wstring *dest,
 				return (-1);
 			wcs = dest->s + dest->length;
 		}
+*/
 #if HAVE_MBRTOWC
-		r = mbrtowc(wcs, mbs, wcs_length, &shift_state);
+		r = mbrtowc(wcs, mbs, mbs_length, &shift_state);
 #else
-		r = mbtowc(wcs, mbs, wcs_length);
+		r = mbtowc(wcs, mbs, mbs_length);
 #endif
 		if (r == (size_t)-1 || r == (size_t)-2) {
 			ret_val = -1;
-			if (errno == EILSEQ) {
-				++mbs;
-				--mbs_length;
-				continue;
-			} else
-				break;
+			break;
 		}
 		if (r == 0 || r > mbs_length)
 			break;
 		wcs++;
-		wcs_length--;
+		//wcs_length--;
 		mbs += r;
 		mbs_length -= r;
 	}