diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4126b4028..01b3e4dff 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   in GB18030 locales, and word counts in UTF-8 locales.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-9.5]
 
+  'wc -c' no longer miscounts bytes when stdin has a nonzero offset
+  into a seekable file whose size is a multiple of the page size.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]
+
 ** New Features
 
   'env' and 'printenv' now support the --quoting-style option
diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in
index 6a098897d..94669125b 100644
--- a/THANKS.in
+++ b/THANKS.in
@@ -577,6 +577,7 @@ Santiago Vila Doncel                sanvila@unex.es
 Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich      saw@msu.ru
 Scott Harrison                      scott.gnu.2009@scottrix.co.uk
 Scott Lurndal                       slurn@griffin.engr.sgi.com
+Scott Orme                          scott.orme@gmail.com
 Sébastien Maret                     smaret@umich.edu
 Sergei Steshenko                    sergstesh@yahoo.com
 Sergey Vlasov                       vsu@altlinux.org
diff --git a/src/wc.c b/src/wc.c
index 272a905f5..d0aab941d 100644
--- a/src/wc.c
+++ b/src/wc.c
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ wc (int fd, char const *file_x, struct fstatus *fstatus)
             ;
           else if (end_pos % page_size)
             {
-              /* We only need special handling of /proc and /sys files etc.
+              /* We need special handling of /proc and /sys files etc. only
                  when they're a multiple of PAGE_SIZE.  In the common case
                  for files with st_size not a multiple of PAGE_SIZE,
                  it's more efficient and accurate to use st_size.
@@ -436,20 +436,25 @@ wc (int fd, char const *file_x, struct fstatus *fstatus)
                  Be careful here.  The current position may actually be
                  beyond the end of the file.  As in the example above.  */
 
-              bytes = end_pos < current_pos ? 0 : end_pos - current_pos;
-              if (bytes && 0 <= lseek (fd, bytes, SEEK_CUR))
-                skip_read = true;
-              else
-                bytes = 0;
+              if (current_pos < end_pos)
+                {
+                  bytes = end_pos - current_pos;
+                  skip_read = true;
+                }
             }
-          else
+          else if (0 < end_pos)
             {
-              off_t hi_pos = (end_pos
-                              - end_pos % (STP_BLKSIZE (&fstatus->st) + 1));
-              if (0 <= current_pos && current_pos < hi_pos
-                  && 0 <= lseek (fd, hi_pos, SEEK_CUR))
+              off_t ep_1 = end_pos - 1;
+              off_t hi_pos = ep_1 - ep_1 % STP_BLKSIZE (&fstatus->st);
+              if (current_pos < hi_pos)
                 bytes = hi_pos - current_pos;
             }
+
+          if (0 < bytes && lseek (fd, bytes, SEEK_CUR) < 0)
+            {
+              bytes = 0;
+              skip_read = false;
+            }
         }
 
       if (! skip_read)