diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 617f9c97ec..2a26715c0c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ We use *breaking :warning:* to mark changes that are not backward compatible (re
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- [#7978](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/7978) Receive: Fix deadlock during local writes when `split-tenant-label-name` is used
+
 ### Added
 
 - [#7907](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/7907) Receive: Add `--receive.grpc-service-config` flag to configure gRPC service config for the receivers.
diff --git a/docs/components/receive.md b/docs/components/receive.md
index 38906489ba..fc0a64d98b 100644
--- a/docs/components/receive.md
+++ b/docs/components/receive.md
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ Please see the metric `thanos_receive_forward_delay_seconds` to see if you need
 
 The following formula is used for calculating quorum:
 
-```go mdox-exec="sed -n '1012,1022p' pkg/receive/handler.go"
+```go mdox-exec="sed -n '1015,1025p' pkg/receive/handler.go"
 // writeQuorum returns minimum number of replicas that has to confirm write success before claiming replication success.
 func (h *Handler) writeQuorum() int {
 	// NOTE(GiedriusS): this is here because otherwise RF=2 doesn't make sense as all writes
diff --git a/pkg/receive/handler.go b/pkg/receive/handler.go
index 163a29a2e1..86c90c30fa 100644
--- a/pkg/receive/handler.go
+++ b/pkg/receive/handler.go
@@ -765,7 +765,10 @@ func (h *Handler) fanoutForward(ctx context.Context, params remoteWriteParams) (
 
 	// Prepare a buffered channel to receive the responses from the local and remote writes. Remote writes will all go
 	// asynchronously and with this capacity we will never block on writing to the channel.
-	maxBufferedResponses := len(localWrites)
+	var maxBufferedResponses int
+	for er := range localWrites {
+		maxBufferedResponses += len(localWrites[er])
+	}
 	for er := range remoteWrites {
 		maxBufferedResponses += len(remoteWrites[er])
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/receive/handler_test.go b/pkg/receive/handler_test.go
index 408e0869fb..f3a58e128f 100644
--- a/pkg/receive/handler_test.go
+++ b/pkg/receive/handler_test.go
@@ -1820,6 +1820,57 @@ func TestDistributeSeries(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, map[string]struct{}{"bar": {}, "boo": {}}, hr.seenTenants)
 }
 
+func TestHandlerSplitTenantLabelLocalWrite(t *testing.T) {
+	const tenantIDLabelName = "thanos_tenant_id"
+
+	appendable := &fakeAppendable{
+		appender: newFakeAppender(nil, nil, nil),
+	}
+
+	h := NewHandler(nil, &Options{
+		Endpoint:             "localhost",
+		SplitTenantLabelName: tenantIDLabelName,
+		ReceiverMode:         RouterIngestor,
+		ReplicationFactor:    1,
+		ForwardTimeout:       1 * time.Second,
+		Writer: NewWriter(
+			log.NewNopLogger(),
+			newFakeTenantAppendable(appendable),
+			&WriterOptions{},
+		),
+	})
+
+	// initialize hashring with a single local endpoint matching the handler endpoint to force
+	// using local write
+	hashring, err := newSimpleHashring([]Endpoint{
+		{
+			Address: h.options.Endpoint,
+		},
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	hr := &hashringSeenTenants{Hashring: hashring}
+	h.Hashring(hr)
+
+	response, err := h.RemoteWrite(context.Background(), &storepb.WriteRequest{
+		Timeseries: []prompb.TimeSeries{
+			{
+				Labels: labelpb.ZLabelsFromPromLabels(
+					labels.FromStrings("a", "b", tenantIDLabelName, "bar"),
+				),
+			},
+			{
+				Labels: labelpb.ZLabelsFromPromLabels(
+					labels.FromStrings("b", "a", tenantIDLabelName, "foo"),
+				),
+			},
+		},
+	})
+
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NotNil(t, response)
+	require.Equal(t, map[string]struct{}{"bar": {}, "foo": {}}, hr.seenTenants)
+}
+
 func TestHandlerFlippingHashrings(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()