diff --git a/buildroot-external/rootfs-overlay/etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/failure.conf b/buildroot-external/rootfs-overlay/etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/failure.conf
index 128fbd509..8aae38311 100644
--- a/buildroot-external/rootfs-overlay/etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/failure.conf
+++ b/buildroot-external/rootfs-overlay/etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/failure.conf
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 [Unit]
 FailureAction=reboot
+
+[Service]
+ExecStopPost=/usr/libexec/docker-failure
diff --git a/buildroot-external/rootfs-overlay/usr/libexec/docker-failure b/buildroot-external/rootfs-overlay/usr/libexec/docker-failure
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..493b00d71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildroot-external/rootfs-overlay/usr/libexec/docker-failure
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ "$SERVICE_RESULT" = "exit-code" ] && [ "$EXIT_STATUS" = "1" ]; then
+    echo "Docker exited with exit status 1, this might be caused by corrupted key.json."
+    size=$(stat -c %s "/etc/docker/key.json")
+    echo "key.json: ${size} bytes"
+    if ! jq < "/etc/docker/key.json" > /dev/null || [ "${size}" -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "key.json appears to be corrupted, it is not parsable. Removing it."
+        rm -f "/etc/docker/key.json"
+    fi
+fi