diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index d0ada39eb4d41bb4a246d28bec3f7ed4ba9d8c2a..97f1d9765c94602d3d954205d98599b92895c4f0 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -329,6 +329,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function_single);
  * (ie: embedded in an object) and is responsible for synchronizing it
  * such that the IPIs performed on the @csd are strictly serialized.
  *
+ * If the function is called with one csd which has not yet been
+ * processed by previous call to smp_call_function_single_async(), the
+ * function will return immediately with -EBUSY showing that the csd
+ * object is still in progress.
+ *
  * NOTE: Be careful, there is unfortunately no current debugging facility to
  * validate the correctness of this serialization.
  */
@@ -338,14 +343,17 @@ int smp_call_function_single_async(int cpu, call_single_data_t *csd)
 
 	preempt_disable();
 
-	/* We could deadlock if we have to wait here with interrupts disabled! */
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(csd->flags & CSD_FLAG_LOCK))
-		csd_lock_wait(csd);
+	if (csd->flags & CSD_FLAG_LOCK) {
+		err = -EBUSY;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	csd->flags = CSD_FLAG_LOCK;
 	smp_wmb();
 
 	err = generic_exec_single(cpu, csd, csd->func, csd->info);
+
+out:
 	preempt_enable();
 
 	return err;