diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt
index 2bbe207354ed..a873855c811d 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-stats.txt
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ Freq_i to Freq_j. Freq_i is in descending order with increasing rows and
 Freq_j is in descending order with increasing columns. The output here also 
 contains the actual freq values for each row and column for better readability.
 
+If the transition table is bigger than PAGE_SIZE, reading this will
+return an -EFBIG error.
+
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 <mysystem>:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats # cat trans_table
    From  :    To
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
index e75880eb037d..1e55b5790853 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_stats.c
@@ -118,8 +118,11 @@ static ssize_t show_trans_table(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
 			break;
 		len += snprintf(buf + len, PAGE_SIZE - len, "\n");
 	}
-	if (len >= PAGE_SIZE)
-		return PAGE_SIZE;
+
+	if (len >= PAGE_SIZE) {
+		pr_warn_once("cpufreq transition table exceeds PAGE_SIZE. Disabling\n");
+		return -EFBIG;
+	}
 	return len;
 }
 cpufreq_freq_attr_ro(trans_table);