diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/core.c b/drivers/tee/optee/core.c
index c04ac361fcf17..f6d711b07e15c 100644
--- a/drivers/tee/optee/core.c
+++ b/drivers/tee/optee/core.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
 
 #include <linux/arm-smccc.h>
+#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -612,6 +613,16 @@ static int optee_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	u32 sec_caps;
 	int rc;
 
+	/*
+	 * The kernel may have crashed at the same time that all available
+	 * secure world threads were suspended and we cannot reschedule the
+	 * suspended threads without access to the crashed kernel's wait_queue.
+	 * Therefore, we cannot reliably initialize the OP-TEE driver in the
+	 * kdump kernel.
+	 */
+	if (is_kdump_kernel())
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	invoke_fn = get_invoke_func(&pdev->dev);
 	if (IS_ERR(invoke_fn))
 		return PTR_ERR(invoke_fn);