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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
index 75b6676c1a0b..646bf4d222c1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
@@ -551,6 +551,24 @@ static void tm_reclaim_thread(struct thread_struct *thr,
msr_diff &= MSR_FP | MSR_VEC | MSR_VSX | MSR_FE0 | MSR_FE1;
}
+ /*
+ * Use the current MSR TM suspended bit to track if we have
+ * checkpointed state outstanding.
+ * On signal delivery, we'd normally reclaim the checkpointed
+ * state to obtain stack pointer (see:get_tm_stackpointer()).
+ * This will then directly return to userspace without going
+ * through __switch_to(). However, if the stack frame is bad,
+ * we need to exit this thread which calls __switch_to() which
+ * will again attempt to reclaim the already saved tm state.
+ * Hence we need to check that we've not already reclaimed
+ * this state.
+ * We do this using the current MSR, rather tracking it in
+ * some specific thread_struct bit, as it has the additional
+ * benifit of checking for a potential TM bad thing exception.
+ */
+ if (!MSR_TM_SUSPENDED(mfmsr()))
+ return;
+
tm_reclaim(thr, thr->regs->msr, cause);
/* Having done the reclaim, we now have the checkpointed