diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 67c22941b5f2..c06ced18f78a 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>
 
@@ -551,6 +552,12 @@ static int bringup_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 	struct task_struct *idle = idle_thread_get(cpu);
 	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.
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index e456cce772a3..304aad997da1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6523,9 +6523,6 @@ void __init init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
 	idle->se.exec_start = sched_clock();
 	idle->flags |= PF_IDLE;
 
-	scs_task_reset(idle);
-	kasan_unpoison_task_stack(idle);
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	/*
 	 * Its possible that init_idle() gets called multiple times on a task,
@@ -6681,7 +6678,6 @@ void idle_task_exit(void)
 		finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
 	}
 
-	scs_task_reset(current);
 	/* finish_cpu(), as ran on the BP, will clean up the active_mm state */
 }