diff --git a/src/libstd/rt/task.rs b/src/libstd/rt/task.rs
index ffe9f118b47..cb949edd7bb 100644
--- a/src/libstd/rt/task.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/rt/task.rs
@@ -228,6 +228,19 @@ impl Task {
                     _ => ()
                 }
 
+                // FIXME #8302: Dear diary. I'm so tired and confused.
+                // There's some interaction in rustc between the box
+                // annihilator and the TLS dtor by which TLS is
+                // accessed from annihilated box dtors *after* TLS is
+                // destroyed. Somehow setting TLS back to null, as the
+                // old runtime did, makes this work, but I don't currently
+                // understand how. I would expect that, if the annihilator
+                // reinvokes TLS while TLS is uninitialized, that
+                // TLS would be reinitialized but never destroyed,
+                // but somehow this works. I have no idea what's going
+                // on but this seems to make things magically work. FML.
+                self.storage = LocalStorage(ptr::null(), None);
+
                 // Destroy remaining boxes. Also may run user dtors.
                 unsafe { cleanup::annihilate(); }
             }