diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c
index a560468765c0d46c5ff45902bcd7057c254cc7e9..6a2dee8cef1f16d530f9d6b3809385df91deda65 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c
@@ -3474,7 +3474,18 @@ intel_dp_check_mst_status(struct intel_dp *intel_dp)
 	drm_WARN_ON_ONCE(&i915->drm, intel_dp->active_mst_links < 0);
 
 	for (;;) {
-		u8 esi[DP_DPRX_ESI_LEN] = {};
+		/*
+		 * The +2 is because DP_DPRX_ESI_LEN is 14, but we then
+		 * pass in "esi+10" to drm_dp_channel_eq_ok(), which
+		 * takes a 6-byte array. So we actually need 16 bytes
+		 * here.
+		 *
+		 * Somebody who knows what the limits actually are
+		 * should check this, but for now this is at least
+		 * harmless and avoids a valid compiler warning about
+		 * using more of the array than we have allocated.
+		 */
+		u8 esi[DP_DPRX_ESI_LEN+2] = {};
 		bool handled;
 		int retry;