diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index c89c245eff40ccbd2f7b4776652c96c23d9e8b91..3f96a487aa2a8bbc9eccd8a616a4ecb20fbcc12b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -1018,7 +1018,12 @@ efi_status_t efi_query_variable_store(u32 attributes, unsigned long size)
 	if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
 		return status;
 
-	if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size || size > max_size ||
+	if (!max_size && remaining_size > size)
+		printk_once(KERN_ERR FW_BUG "Broken EFI implementation"
+			    " is returning MaxVariableSize=0\n");
+
+	if (!storage_size || size > remaining_size ||
+	    (max_size && size > max_size) ||
 	    (remaining_size - size) < (storage_size / 2))
 		return EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;