diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index c44c84b2b7f055d45d7623327967daecf167ff3e..28b92e582bd907689fca85b28c460c3f2a9f38ae 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -334,22 +334,27 @@ void arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	fpsimd_release_task(tsk);
 }
 
-/*
- * src and dst may temporarily have aliased sve_state after task_struct
- * is copied.  We cannot fix this properly here, because src may have
- * live SVE state and dst's thread_info may not exist yet, so tweaking
- * either src's or dst's TIF_SVE is not safe.
- *
- * The unaliasing is done in copy_thread() instead.  This works because
- * dst is not schedulable or traceable until both of these functions
- * have been called.
- */
 int arch_dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *dst, struct task_struct *src)
 {
 	if (current->mm)
 		fpsimd_preserve_current_state();
 	*dst = *src;
 
+	/* We rely on the above assignment to initialize dst's thread_flags: */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK));
+
+	/*
+	 * Detach src's sve_state (if any) from dst so that it does not
+	 * get erroneously used or freed prematurely.  dst's sve_state
+	 * will be allocated on demand later on if dst uses SVE.
+	 * For consistency, also clear TIF_SVE here: this could be done
+	 * later in copy_process(), but to avoid tripping up future
+	 * maintainers it is best not to leave TIF_SVE and sve_state in
+	 * an inconsistent state, even temporarily.
+	 */
+	dst->thread.sve_state = NULL;
+	clear_tsk_thread_flag(dst, TIF_SVE);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -362,13 +367,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
 
 	memset(&p->thread.cpu_context, 0, sizeof(struct cpu_context));
 
-	/*
-	 * Unalias p->thread.sve_state (if any) from the parent task
-	 * and disable discard SVE state for p:
-	 */
-	clear_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_SVE);
-	p->thread.sve_state = NULL;
-
 	/*
 	 * In case p was allocated the same task_struct pointer as some
 	 * other recently-exited task, make sure p is disassociated from