diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 192e43a..407a256 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/smpboot.h>
 #include <linux/relay.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/scs.h>
 #include <linux/percpu-rwsem.h>
 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
 
@@ -588,6 +589,12 @@
 	int ret;
 
 	/*
+	 * Reset stale stack state from the last time this CPU was online.
+	 */
+	scs_task_reset(idle);
+	kasan_unpoison_task_stack(idle);
+
+	/*
 	 * Some architectures have to walk the irq descriptors to
 	 * setup the vector space for the cpu which comes online.
 	 * Prevent irq alloc/free across the bringup.
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3c9b0fd..76f9dee 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8619,9 +8619,6 @@
 	idle->flags |= PF_IDLE | PF_KTHREAD | PF_NO_SETAFFINITY;
 	kthread_set_per_cpu(idle, cpu);
 
-	scs_task_reset(idle);
-	kasan_unpoison_task_stack(idle);
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	/*
 	 * It's possible that init_idle() gets called multiple times on a task,
@@ -8777,7 +8774,6 @@
 		finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
 	}
 
-	scs_task_reset(current);
 	/* finish_cpu(), as ran on the BP, will clean up the active_mm state */
 }