diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cq.c
index 2746d2eb3d52c4036518b26e2b22038de80bd788..f2ae75fa3128b9101985bb92e882b596404c7ebc 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cq.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cq.c
@@ -29,7 +29,13 @@ static int __ib_process_cq(struct ib_cq *cq, int budget)
 {
 	int i, n, completed = 0;
 
-	while ((n = ib_poll_cq(cq, IB_POLL_BATCH, cq->wc)) > 0) {
+	/*
+	 * budget might be (-1) if the caller does not
+	 * want to bound this call, thus we need unsigned
+	 * minimum here.
+	 */
+	while ((n = ib_poll_cq(cq, min_t(u32, IB_POLL_BATCH,
+			budget - completed), cq->wc)) > 0) {
 		for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
 			struct ib_wc *wc = &cq->wc[i];