diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 38ece035039e..348c8cec1042 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -408,14 +408,15 @@ queue:
 	 */
 	if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) {
 		prev = decode_tail(old);
-		/*
-		 * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which
-		 * generates, through decode_tail(), a pointer.  The address
-		 * dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail() such that
-		 * the subsequent access to @prev happens after.
-		 */
 
-		WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node);
+		/*
+		 * We must ensure that the stores to @node are observed before
+		 * the write to prev->next. The address dependency from
+		 * xchg_tail is not sufficient to ensure this because the read
+		 * component of xchg_tail is unordered with respect to the
+		 * initialisation of @node.
+		 */
+		smp_store_release(&prev->next, node);
 
 		pv_wait_node(node, prev);
 		arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(&node->locked);