diff --git a/arch/s390/boot/startup.c b/arch/s390/boot/startup.c
index 5367950510f6..fa0150285d38 100644
--- a/arch/s390/boot/startup.c
+++ b/arch/s390/boot/startup.c
@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ void startup_kernel(void)
 		handle_relocs(__kaslr_offset);
 
 	if (__kaslr_offset) {
+		/*
+		 * Save KASLR offset for early dumps, before vmcore_info is set.
+		 * Mark as uneven to distinguish from real vmcore_info pointer.
+		 */
+		S390_lowcore.vmcore_info = __kaslr_offset | 0x1UL;
 		/* Clear non-relocated kernel */
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED))
 			memset(img, 0, vmlinux.image_size);
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c b/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
index 444a19125a81..d402ced7f7c3 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -254,10 +254,10 @@ void arch_crash_save_vmcoreinfo(void)
 	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(lowcore_ptr);
 	VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(high_memory);
 	VMCOREINFO_LENGTH(lowcore_ptr, NR_CPUS);
-	mem_assign_absolute(S390_lowcore.vmcore_info, paddr_vmcoreinfo_note());
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("SDMA=%lx\n", __sdma);
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("EDMA=%lx\n", __edma);
 	vmcoreinfo_append_str("KERNELOFFSET=%lx\n", kaslr_offset());
+	mem_assign_absolute(S390_lowcore.vmcore_info, paddr_vmcoreinfo_note());
 }
 
 void machine_shutdown(void)