diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/subsys-pil-tz.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/subsys-pil-tz.c
index ddd30f512b0d..f256c812e1f5 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/qcom/subsys-pil-tz.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/subsys-pil-tz.c
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
 #define desc_to_data(d) container_of(d, struct pil_tz_data, desc)
 #define subsys_to_data(d) container_of(d, struct pil_tz_data, subsys_desc)
 
+static char pil_ssr_reason[MAX_SSR_REASON_LEN];
+static char *ssr_reason = pil_ssr_reason;
+module_param(ssr_reason, charp, S_IRUGO);
+
 /**
  * struct reg_info - regulator info
  * @reg: regulator handle
@@ -761,7 +765,7 @@ static struct pil_reset_ops pil_ops_trusted = {
 static void log_failure_reason(const struct pil_tz_data *d)
 {
 	size_t size;
-	char *smem_reason, reason[MAX_SSR_REASON_LEN];
+	char *smem_reason;
 	const char *name = d->subsys_desc.name;
 
 	if (d->smem_id == -1)
@@ -778,8 +782,8 @@ static void log_failure_reason(const struct pil_tz_data *d)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	strlcpy(reason, smem_reason, min(size, (size_t)MAX_SSR_REASON_LEN));
-	pr_err("%s subsystem failure reason: %s.\n", name, reason);
+	strlcpy(pil_ssr_reason, smem_reason, min((size_t)size, (size_t)sizeof(pil_ssr_reason)));
+	pr_err("%s subsystem failure reason: %s.\n", name, pil_ssr_reason);
 }
 
 static int subsys_shutdown(const struct subsys_desc *subsys, bool force_stop)