diff --git a/Kernel/Syscall.cpp b/Kernel/Syscall.cpp
index 569a6434e9..f087d2a71f 100644
--- a/Kernel/Syscall.cpp
+++ b/Kernel/Syscall.cpp
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ void syscall_handler(TrapFrame* trap)
         PANIC("Syscall from process with IOPL != 0");
     }
 
+    // NOTE: We take the big process lock before inspecting memory regions.
+    process.big_lock().lock();
+
     if (!MM.validate_user_stack(process, VirtualAddress(regs.userspace_esp))) {
         dbgln("Invalid stack pointer: {:p}", regs.userspace_esp);
         handle_crash(regs, "Bad stack on syscall entry", SIGSTKFLT);
@@ -190,7 +193,6 @@ void syscall_handler(TrapFrame* trap)
         handle_crash(regs, "Syscall from non-syscall region", SIGSEGV);
     }
 
-    process.big_lock().lock();
     u32 function = regs.eax;
     u32 arg1 = regs.edx;
     u32 arg2 = regs.ecx;
diff --git a/Kernel/Syscalls/get_stack_bounds.cpp b/Kernel/Syscalls/get_stack_bounds.cpp
index 0f764c736a..b72939220d 100644
--- a/Kernel/Syscalls/get_stack_bounds.cpp
+++ b/Kernel/Syscalls/get_stack_bounds.cpp
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ int Process::sys$get_stack_bounds(FlatPtr* user_stack_base, size_t* user_stack_s
 {
     FlatPtr stack_pointer = Thread::current()->get_register_dump_from_stack().userspace_esp;
     auto* stack_region = space().find_region_containing(Range { VirtualAddress(stack_pointer), 1 });
-    if (!stack_region) {
-        PANIC("sys$get_stack_bounds: No stack region found for process");
-    }
+
+    // The syscall handler should have killed us if we had an invalid stack pointer.
+    ASSERT(stack_region);
 
     FlatPtr stack_base = stack_region->range().base().get();
     size_t stack_size = stack_region->size();