diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 5ee281b996f9..5ed1ad06f9a3 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 	int old_cpu, this_cpu;
 	bool _crash_kexec_post_notifiers = crash_kexec_post_notifiers;
 
+	if (panic_on_warn) {
+		/*
+		 * This thread may hit another WARN() in the panic path.
+		 * Resetting this prevents additional WARN() from panicking the
+		 * system on this thread.  Other threads are blocked by the
+		 * panic_mutex in panic().
+		 */
+		panic_on_warn = 0;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
 	 * from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
@@ -616,16 +626,8 @@ void __warn(const char *file, int line, void *caller, unsigned taint,
 	if (regs)
 		show_regs(regs);
 
-	if (panic_on_warn) {
-		/*
-		 * This thread may hit another WARN() in the panic path.
-		 * Resetting this prevents additional WARN() from panicking the
-		 * system on this thread.  Other threads are blocked by the
-		 * panic_mutex in panic().
-		 */
-		panic_on_warn = 0;
+	if (panic_on_warn)
 		panic("panic_on_warn set ...\n");
-	}
 
 	if (!regs)
 		dump_stack();