diff --git a/apis/console/src/lib.rs b/apis/console/src/lib.rs
index 423344c1..20011214 100644
--- a/apis/console/src/lib.rs
+++ b/apis/console/src/lib.rs
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ impl<S: Syscalls, C: Config> Console<S, C> {
     /// This is an alternative to `fmt::Write::write`
     /// because this can actually return an error code.
     pub fn write(s: &[u8]) -> Result<(), ErrorCode> {
+        // for an empty string the driver would never schedule an upcall, so the app would yield infinitely
+        if s.is_empty() {
+            return Ok(());
+        }
         let called: Cell<Option<(u32,)>> = Cell::new(None);
         share::scope::<
             (