diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
index a4c186486caf23abe8c700d1a8b5027073f07025..798429a5d373ed07caa07691cb3857aa98ada5ad 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
@@ -915,6 +915,27 @@ intel_dp_aux_ch(struct intel_dp *intel_dp,
 	/* Unload any bytes sent back from the other side */
 	recv_bytes = ((status & DP_AUX_CH_CTL_MESSAGE_SIZE_MASK) >>
 		      DP_AUX_CH_CTL_MESSAGE_SIZE_SHIFT);
+
+	/*
+	 * By BSpec: "Message sizes of 0 or >20 are not allowed."
+	 * We have no idea of what happened so we return -EBUSY so
+	 * drm layer takes care for the necessary retries.
+	 */
+	if (recv_bytes == 0 || recv_bytes > 20) {
+		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Forbidden recv_bytes = %d on aux transaction\n",
+			      recv_bytes);
+		/*
+		 * FIXME: This patch was created on top of a series that
+		 * organize the retries at drm level. There EBUSY should
+		 * also take care for 1ms wait before retrying.
+		 * That aux retries re-org is still needed and after that is
+		 * merged we remove this sleep from here.
+		 */
+		usleep_range(1000, 1500);
+		ret = -EBUSY;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (recv_bytes > recv_size)
 		recv_bytes = recv_size;