diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 34baa60f8a7b..3af3d1e7df9b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1179,6 +1179,13 @@ static void task_numa_compare(struct task_numa_env *env,
 		cur = NULL;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&dst_rq->lock);
 
+	/*
+	 * Because we have preemption enabled we can get migrated around and
+	 * end try selecting ourselves (current == env->p) as a swap candidate.
+	 */
+	if (cur == env->p)
+		goto unlock;
+
 	/*
 	 * "imp" is the fault differential for the source task between the
 	 * source and destination node. Calculate the total differential for