diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 99a3808d086f..f1e4f1f35cae 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(kthread_create_list);
 struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
 
-static LIST_HEAD(kthreads_hotplug);
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(kthreads_hotplug_lock);
+static LIST_HEAD(kthread_affinity_list);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(kthread_affinity_lock);
 
 struct kthread_create_info
 {
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct kthread {
 	/* To store the full name if task comm is truncated. */
 	char *full_name;
 	struct task_struct *task;
-	struct list_head hotplug_node;
+	struct list_head affinity_node;
 	struct cpumask *preferred_affinity;
 };
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ bool set_kthread_struct(struct task_struct *p)
 
 	init_completion(&kthread->exited);
 	init_completion(&kthread->parked);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kthread->hotplug_node);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kthread->affinity_node);
 	p->vfork_done = &kthread->exited;
 
 	kthread->task = p;
@@ -323,10 +323,10 @@ void __noreturn kthread_exit(long result)
 {
 	struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(current);
 	kthread->result = result;
-	if (!list_empty(&kthread->hotplug_node)) {
-		mutex_lock(&kthreads_hotplug_lock);
-		list_del(&kthread->hotplug_node);
-		mutex_unlock(&kthreads_hotplug_lock);
+	if (!list_empty(&kthread->affinity_node)) {
+		mutex_lock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
+		list_del(&kthread->affinity_node);
+		mutex_unlock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
 
 		if (kthread->preferred_affinity) {
 			kfree(kthread->preferred_affinity);
@@ -390,9 +390,9 @@ static void kthread_affine_node(void)
 			return;
 		}
 
-		mutex_lock(&kthreads_hotplug_lock);
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&kthread->hotplug_node));
-		list_add_tail(&kthread->hotplug_node, &kthreads_hotplug);
+		mutex_lock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&kthread->affinity_node));
+		list_add_tail(&kthread->affinity_node, &kthread_affinity_list);
 		/*
 		 * The node cpumask is racy when read from kthread() but:
 		 * - a racing CPU going down will either fail on the subsequent
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static void kthread_affine_node(void)
 		 */
 		kthread_fetch_affinity(kthread, affinity);
 		set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, affinity);
-		mutex_unlock(&kthreads_hotplug_lock);
+		mutex_unlock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
 
 		free_cpumask_var(affinity);
 	}
@@ -873,16 +873,16 @@ int kthread_affine_preferred(struct task_struct *p, const struct cpumask *mask)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	mutex_lock(&kthreads_hotplug_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
 	cpumask_copy(kthread->preferred_affinity, mask);
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&kthread->hotplug_node));
-	list_add_tail(&kthread->hotplug_node, &kthreads_hotplug);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&kthread->affinity_node));
+	list_add_tail(&kthread->affinity_node, &kthread_affinity_list);
 	kthread_fetch_affinity(kthread, affinity);
 
 	scoped_guard (raw_spinlock_irqsave, &p->pi_lock)
 		set_cpus_allowed_force(p, affinity);
 
-	mutex_unlock(&kthreads_hotplug_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
 out:
 	free_cpumask_var(affinity);
 
@@ -903,9 +903,9 @@ static int kthreads_online_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 	struct kthread *k;
 	int ret;
 
-	guard(mutex)(&kthreads_hotplug_lock);
+	guard(mutex)(&kthread_affinity_lock);
 
-	if (list_empty(&kthreads_hotplug))
+	if (list_empty(&kthread_affinity_list))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&affinity, GFP_KERNEL))
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ static int kthreads_online_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 
 	ret = 0;
 
-	list_for_each_entry(k, &kthreads_hotplug, hotplug_node) {
+	list_for_each_entry(k, &kthread_affinity_list, affinity_node) {
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE((k->task->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY) ||
 				 kthread_is_per_cpu(k->task))) {
 			ret = -EINVAL;