diff --git a/sound/soc/sprd/sprd-pcm-compress.c b/sound/soc/sprd/sprd-pcm-compress.c
index a7d437b49fbf..e5249924b54d 100644
--- a/sound/soc/sprd/sprd-pcm-compress.c
+++ b/sound/soc/sprd/sprd-pcm-compress.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 /* Default values if userspace does not set */
 #define SPRD_COMPR_MIN_FRAGMENT_SIZE	SZ_8K
-#define SPRD_COMPR_MAX_FRAGMENT_SIZE	SZ_128K
+#define SPRD_COMPR_MAX_FRAGMENT_SIZE	SZ_32K
 #define SPRD_COMPR_MIN_NUM_FRAGMENTS	4
 #define SPRD_COMPR_MAX_NUM_FRAGMENTS	64
 
@@ -271,6 +271,19 @@ static int sprd_platform_compr_set_params(struct snd_soc_component *component,
 	struct sprd_compr_params compr_params = { };
 	int ret;
 
+	/*
+	 * The stage 0 IRAM buffer and the stage 1 DDR buffer are allocated
+	 * with fixed sizes at open time, so the requested fragment size and
+	 * fragments must fit into them, otherwise sprd_platform_compr_copy()
+	 * would overflow the buffers. Note the compress core only checks the
+	 * fragment size and fragments against an u32 overflow, not against
+	 * the buffer sizes advertised by get_caps.
+	 */
+	if (params->buffer.fragment_size > SPRD_COMPR_IRAM_BUF_SIZE ||
+	    (u64)params->buffer.fragment_size * params->buffer.fragments >
+	    SPRD_COMPR_AREA_BUF_SIZE)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	/*
 	 * Configure the DMA engine 2-stage transfer mode. Channel 1 set as the
 	 * destination channel, and channel 0 set as the source channel, that