diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-stats.c b/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
index bdc14ec99814..1e5d988f44da 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-stats.c
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ struct dm_stats_last_position {
 	unsigned int last_rw;
 };
 
+#define DM_STAT_MAX_ENTRIES		8388608
+#define DM_STAT_MAX_HISTOGRAM_ENTRIES	134217728
+
 /*
  * A typo on the command line could possibly make the kernel run out of memory
  * and crash. To prevent the crash we account all used memory. We fail if we
@@ -285,6 +288,9 @@ static int dm_stats_create(struct dm_stats *stats, sector_t start, sector_t end,
 	if (n_entries != (size_t)n_entries || !(size_t)(n_entries + 1))
 		return -EOVERFLOW;
 
+	if (n_entries > DM_STAT_MAX_ENTRIES)
+		return -EOVERFLOW;
+
 	shared_alloc_size = struct_size(s, stat_shared, n_entries);
 	if ((shared_alloc_size - sizeof(struct dm_stat)) / sizeof(struct dm_stat_shared) != n_entries)
 		return -EOVERFLOW;
@@ -297,6 +303,9 @@ static int dm_stats_create(struct dm_stats *stats, sector_t start, sector_t end,
 	if (histogram_alloc_size / (n_histogram_entries + 1) != (size_t)n_entries * sizeof(unsigned long long))
 		return -EOVERFLOW;
 
+	if ((n_histogram_entries + 1) * (size_t)n_entries > DM_STAT_MAX_HISTOGRAM_ENTRIES)
+		return -EOVERFLOW;
+
 	if (!check_shared_memory(shared_alloc_size + histogram_alloc_size +
 				 num_possible_cpus() * (percpu_alloc_size + histogram_alloc_size)))
 		return -ENOMEM;