diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index a278cad1d5d6..942ca27a28b7 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -1401,8 +1401,10 @@ static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
 		while (!signal_pending(current)) {
 			if (timer.it.cpu.expires.sched == 0) {
 				/*
-				 * Our timer fired and was reset.
+				 * Our timer fired and was reset, below
+				 * deletion can not fail.
 				 */
+				posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer);
 				spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock);
 				return 0;
 			}
@@ -1420,9 +1422,26 @@ static int do_cpu_nanosleep(const clockid_t which_clock, int flags,
 		 * We were interrupted by a signal.
 		 */
 		sample_to_timespec(which_clock, timer.it.cpu.expires, rqtp);
-		posix_cpu_timer_set(&timer, 0, &zero_it, it);
+		error = posix_cpu_timer_set(&timer, 0, &zero_it, it);
+		if (!error) {
+			/*
+			 * Timer is now unarmed, deletion can not fail.
+			 */
+			posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer);
+		}
 		spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock);
 
+		while (error == TIMER_RETRY) {
+			/*
+			 * We need to handle case when timer was or is in the
+			 * middle of firing. In other cases we already freed
+			 * resources.
+			 */
+			spin_lock_irq(&timer.it_lock);
+			error = posix_cpu_timer_del(&timer);
+			spin_unlock_irq(&timer.it_lock);
+		}
+
 		if ((it->it_value.tv_sec | it->it_value.tv_nsec) == 0) {
 			/*
 			 * It actually did fire already.