diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 800e99b..14bc348 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -513,9 +513,17 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct hrtimer *timer)
 						     struct sched_dl_entity,
 						     dl_timer);
 	struct task_struct *p = dl_task_of(dl_se);
-	struct rq *rq = task_rq(p);
+	struct rq *rq;
+again:
+	rq = task_rq(p);
 	raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
 
+	if (rq != task_rq(p)) {
+		/* Task was moved, retrying. */
+		raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
+		goto again;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * We need to take care of a possible races here. In fact, the
 	 * task might have changed its scheduling policy to something