diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 7e6f51a9d91724378132219db30dd12789fd8a47..e93670d736a6af397d33fa35834e2c8b25e2b239 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1207,13 +1207,18 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 		lmce = m.mcgstatus & MCG_STATUS_LMCES;
 
 	/*
+	 * Local machine check may already know that we have to panic.
+	 * Broadcast machine check begins rendezvous in mce_start()
 	 * Go through all banks in exclusion of the other CPUs. This way we
 	 * don't report duplicated events on shared banks because the first one
-	 * to see it will clear it. If this is a Local MCE, then no need to
-	 * perform rendezvous.
+	 * to see it will clear it.
 	 */
-	if (!lmce)
+	if (lmce) {
+		if (no_way_out)
+			mce_panic("Fatal local machine check", &m, msg);
+	} else {
 		order = mce_start(&no_way_out);
+	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < cfg->banks; i++) {
 		__clear_bit(i, toclear);
@@ -1289,12 +1294,17 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 			no_way_out = worst >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY;
 	} else {
 		/*
-		 * Local MCE skipped calling mce_reign()
-		 * If we found a fatal error, we need to panic here.
+		 * If there was a fatal machine check we should have
+		 * already called mce_panic earlier in this function.
+		 * Since we re-read the banks, we might have found
+		 * something new. Check again to see if we found a
+		 * fatal error. We call "mce_severity()" again to
+		 * make sure we have the right "msg".
 		 */
-		 if (worst >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY && mca_cfg.tolerant < 3)
-			mce_panic("Machine check from unknown source",
-				NULL, NULL);
+		if (worst >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY && mca_cfg.tolerant < 3) {
+			mce_severity(&m, cfg->tolerant, &msg, true);
+			mce_panic("Local fatal machine check!", &m, msg);
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*