diff --git a/lib/stackdepot.c b/lib/stackdepot.c
index 00ccb106f1a8..bf5ba9af0500 100644
--- a/lib/stackdepot.c
+++ b/lib/stackdepot.c
@@ -328,6 +328,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(stack_depot_fetch);
  * (allocates using GFP flags of @alloc_flags). If @can_alloc is %false, avoids
  * any allocations and will fail if no space is left to store the stack trace.
  *
+ * If the stack trace in @entries is from an interrupt, only the portion up to
+ * interrupt entry is saved.
+ *
  * Context: Any context, but setting @can_alloc to %false is required if
  *          alloc_pages() cannot be used from the current context. Currently
  *          this is the case from contexts where neither %GFP_ATOMIC nor
@@ -346,6 +349,16 @@ depot_stack_handle_t __stack_depot_save(unsigned long *entries,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u32 hash;
 
+	/*
+	 * If this stack trace is from an interrupt, including anything before
+	 * interrupt entry usually leads to unbounded stackdepot growth.
+	 *
+	 * Because use of filter_irq_stacks() is a requirement to ensure
+	 * stackdepot can efficiently deduplicate interrupt stacks, always
+	 * filter_irq_stacks() to simplify all callers' use of stackdepot.
+	 */
+	nr_entries = filter_irq_stacks(entries, nr_entries);
+
 	if (unlikely(nr_entries == 0) || stack_depot_disable)
 		goto fast_exit;
 
diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
index 7c06db78a76c..92196562687b 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/common.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ depot_stack_handle_t kasan_save_stack(gfp_t flags, bool can_alloc)
 	unsigned int nr_entries;
 
 	nr_entries = stack_trace_save(entries, ARRAY_SIZE(entries), 0);
-	nr_entries = filter_irq_stacks(entries, nr_entries);
 	return __stack_depot_save(entries, nr_entries, flags, can_alloc);
 }