diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 7f7fa1a2ee32..14c863e52bfe 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5246,6 +5246,7 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 {
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
 	struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
+	int task_new = !(flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP);
 
 	/*
 	 * The code below (indirectly) updates schedutil which looks at
@@ -5327,7 +5328,7 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 		 * into account, but that is not straightforward to implement,
 		 * and the following generally works well enough in practice.
 		 */
-		if (flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP)
+		if (!task_new)
 			update_overutilized_status(rq);
 
 	}