diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
index ba0a2a4a54ba..e32fdbb4c9a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ signal will be rolled back anyway.
 For signals taken in non-TM or suspended mode, we use the
 normal/non-checkpointed stack pointer.
 
+Any transaction initiated inside a sighandler and suspended on return
+from the sighandler to the kernel will get reclaimed and discarded.
 
 Failure cause codes used by kernel
 ==================================
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
index b6aa378aff63..a7daf749b97f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -1226,7 +1226,21 @@ long sys_rt_sigreturn(int r3, int r4, int r5, int r6, int r7, int r8,
 		(regs->gpr[1] + __SIGNAL_FRAMESIZE + 16);
 	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, rt_sf, sizeof(*rt_sf)))
 		goto bad;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
+	/*
+	 * If there is a transactional state then throw it away.
+	 * The purpose of a sigreturn is to destroy all traces of the
+	 * signal frame, this includes any transactional state created
+	 * within in. We only check for suspended as we can never be
+	 * active in the kernel, we are active, there is nothing better to
+	 * do than go ahead and Bad Thing later.
+	 * The cause is not important as there will never be a
+	 * recheckpoint so it's not user visible.
+	 */
+	if (MSR_TM_SUSPENDED(mfmsr()))
+		tm_reclaim_current(0);
+
 	if (__get_user(tmp, &rt_sf->uc.uc_link))
 		goto bad;
 	uc_transact = (struct ucontext __user *)(uintptr_t)tmp;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
index 7e49984d4331..70409bb90a95 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c
@@ -676,7 +676,21 @@ int sys_rt_sigreturn(unsigned long r3, unsigned long r4, unsigned long r5,
 	if (__copy_from_user(&set, &uc->uc_sigmask, sizeof(set)))
 		goto badframe;
 	set_current_blocked(&set);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
+	/*
+	 * If there is a transactional state then throw it away.
+	 * The purpose of a sigreturn is to destroy all traces of the
+	 * signal frame, this includes any transactional state created
+	 * within in. We only check for suspended as we can never be
+	 * active in the kernel, we are active, there is nothing better to
+	 * do than go ahead and Bad Thing later.
+	 * The cause is not important as there will never be a
+	 * recheckpoint so it's not user visible.
+	 */
+	if (MSR_TM_SUSPENDED(mfmsr()))
+		tm_reclaim_current(0);
+
 	if (__get_user(msr, &uc->uc_mcontext.gp_regs[PT_MSR]))
 		goto badframe;
 	if (MSR_TM_ACTIVE(msr)) {