diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
index c98f78330b09..4b7706ddd8b6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ extern void __init efi_apply_memmap_quirks(void);
 extern int __init efi_reuse_config(u64 tables, int nr_tables);
 extern void efi_delete_dummy_variable(void);
 extern void efi_switch_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
-extern void efi_recover_from_page_fault(unsigned long phys_addr);
+extern void efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault(unsigned long phys_addr);
 extern void efi_free_boot_services(void);
 
 /* kexec external ABI */
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 1c3054bb4a5b..7b3a125e1e98 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/prefetch.h>		/* prefetchw			*/
 #include <linux/context_tracking.h>	/* exception_enter(), ...	*/
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>		/* faulthandler_disabled()	*/
-#include <linux/efi.h>			/* efi_recover_from_page_fault()*/
+#include <linux/efi.h>			/* efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault()*/
 #include <linux/mm_types.h>
 
 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>		/* boot_cpu_has, ...		*/
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #include <asm/vsyscall.h>		/* emulate_vsyscall		*/
 #include <asm/vm86.h>			/* struct vm86			*/
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>		/* vma_pkey()			*/
-#include <asm/efi.h>			/* efi_recover_from_page_fault()*/
+#include <asm/efi.h>			/* efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault()*/
 #include <asm/desc.h>			/* store_idt(), ...		*/
 #include <asm/cpu_entry_area.h>		/* exception stack		*/
 #include <asm/pgtable_areas.h>		/* VMALLOC_START, ...		*/
@@ -701,11 +701,12 @@ page_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 #endif
 
 	/*
-	 * Buggy firmware could access regions which might page fault, try to
-	 * recover from such faults.
+	 * Buggy firmware could access regions which might page fault.  If
+	 * this happens, EFI has a special OOPS path that will try to
+	 * avoid hanging the system.
 	 */
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI))
-		efi_recover_from_page_fault(address);
+		efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault(address);
 
 oops:
 	/*
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
index 5a40fe411ebd..67d93a243c35 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
@@ -687,15 +687,25 @@ int efi_capsule_setup_info(struct capsule_info *cap_info, void *kbuff,
  * @return: Returns, if the page fault is not handled. This function
  * will never return if the page fault is handled successfully.
  */
-void efi_recover_from_page_fault(unsigned long phys_addr)
+void efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault(unsigned long phys_addr)
 {
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64))
 		return;
 
 	/*
-	 * Make sure that an efi runtime service caused the page fault.
+	 * If we get an interrupt/NMI while processing an EFI runtime service
+	 * then this is a regular OOPS, not an EFI failure.
 	 */
-	if (efi_rts_work.efi_rts_id == EFI_NONE)
+	if (in_interrupt())
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that an efi runtime service caused the page fault.
+	 * READ_ONCE() because we might be OOPSing in a different thread,
+	 * and we don't want to trip KTSAN while trying to OOPS.
+	 */
+	if (READ_ONCE(efi_rts_work.efi_rts_id) == EFI_NONE ||
+	    current_work() != &efi_rts_work.work)
 		return;
 
 	/*
@@ -747,6 +757,4 @@ void efi_recover_from_page_fault(unsigned long phys_addr)
 		set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
 		schedule();
 	}
-
-	return;
 }