diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c
index a91e6ce70c..2eddfc3f74 100644
--- a/fsck.c
+++ b/fsck.c
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 #include "decorate.h"
 #include "oidset.h"
 #include "packfile.h"
+#include "submodule-config.h"
+#include "config.h"
 
 static struct oidset gitmodules_found = OIDSET_INIT;
 static struct oidset gitmodules_done = OIDSET_INIT;
@@ -59,6 +61,8 @@ static struct oidset gitmodules_done = OIDSET_INIT;
 	FUNC(ZERO_PADDED_DATE, ERROR) \
 	FUNC(GITMODULES_MISSING, ERROR) \
 	FUNC(GITMODULES_BLOB, ERROR) \
+	FUNC(GITMODULES_PARSE, ERROR) \
+	FUNC(GITMODULES_NAME, ERROR) \
 	/* warnings */ \
 	FUNC(BAD_FILEMODE, WARN) \
 	FUNC(EMPTY_NAME, WARN) \
@@ -911,10 +915,64 @@ static int fsck_tag(struct tag *tag, const char *data,
 	return fsck_tag_buffer(tag, data, size, options);
 }
 
+struct fsck_gitmodules_data {
+	struct object *obj;
+	struct fsck_options *options;
+	int ret;
+};
+
+static int fsck_gitmodules_fn(const char *var, const char *value, void *vdata)
+{
+	struct fsck_gitmodules_data *data = vdata;
+	const char *subsection, *key;
+	int subsection_len;
+	char *name;
+
+	if (parse_config_key(var, "submodule", &subsection, &subsection_len, &key) < 0 ||
+	    !subsection)
+		return 0;
+
+	name = xmemdupz(subsection, subsection_len);
+	if (check_submodule_name(name) < 0)
+		data->ret |= report(data->options, data->obj,
+				    FSCK_MSG_GITMODULES_NAME,
+				    "disallowed submodule name: %s",
+				    name);
+	free(name);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int fsck_blob(struct blob *blob, const char *buf,
 		     unsigned long size, struct fsck_options *options)
 {
-	return 0;
+	struct fsck_gitmodules_data data;
+
+	if (!oidset_contains(&gitmodules_found, &blob->object.oid))
+		return 0;
+	oidset_insert(&gitmodules_done, &blob->object.oid);
+
+	if (!buf) {
+		/*
+		 * A missing buffer here is a sign that the caller found the
+		 * blob too gigantic to load into memory. Let's just consider
+		 * that an error.
+		 */
+		return report(options, &blob->object,
+			      FSCK_MSG_GITMODULES_PARSE,
+			      ".gitmodules too large to parse");
+	}
+
+	data.obj = &blob->object;
+	data.options = options;
+	data.ret = 0;
+	if (git_config_from_mem(fsck_gitmodules_fn, CONFIG_ORIGIN_BLOB,
+				".gitmodules", buf, size, &data))
+		data.ret |= report(options, &blob->object,
+				   FSCK_MSG_GITMODULES_PARSE,
+				   "could not parse gitmodules blob");
+
+	return data.ret;
 }
 
 int fsck_object(struct object *obj, void *data, unsigned long size,