diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 97d276ff1edb..f0d043ec0182 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4927,7 +4927,15 @@ void init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
 	idle->state = TASK_RUNNING;
 	idle->se.exec_start = sched_clock();
 
-	do_set_cpus_allowed(idle, cpumask_of(cpu));
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	/*
+	 * Its possible that init_idle() gets called multiple times on a task,
+	 * in that case do_set_cpus_allowed() will not do the right thing.
+	 *
+	 * And since this is boot we can forgo the serialization.
+	 */
+	set_cpus_allowed_common(idle, cpumask_of(cpu));
+#endif
 	/*
 	 * We're having a chicken and egg problem, even though we are
 	 * holding rq->lock, the cpu isn't yet set to this cpu so the
@@ -4944,7 +4952,7 @@ void init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
 
 	rq->curr = rq->idle = idle;
 	idle->on_rq = TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED;
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	idle->on_cpu = 1;
 #endif
 	raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
@@ -4959,7 +4967,7 @@ void init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
 	idle->sched_class = &idle_sched_class;
 	ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(idle, cpu);
 	vtime_init_idle(idle, cpu);
-#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	sprintf(idle->comm, "%s/%d", INIT_TASK_COMM, cpu);
 #endif
 }