In this paper, we focus on the famous Talenti’s symmetrization inequality, more precisely, its \(L^p\) corollary which asserts that the \(L^p\) -norm of the solution to \(-\Delta v=f^\sharp \) is higher than the \(L^p\) -norm of the solution to \(-\Delta u=f\) (we are considering Dirichlet boundary conditions, and \(f^\sharp \) denotes the Schwarz symmetrization of \(f:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb {R}_+\) ). We focus on the particular case where functions f are defined on the unit ball, and are characteristic functions of a subset of this unit ball. We show in this case that stability occurs for the \(L^p\) -Talenti inequality with the sharp exponent 2.