diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 860070fba814..c5f020c601b2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7557,11 +7557,6 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
 	atomic_inc(&init_mm.mm_count);
 	enter_lazy_tlb(&init_mm, current);
 
-	/*
-	 * During early bootup we pretend to be a normal task:
-	 */
-	current->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
-
 	/*
 	 * Make us the idle thread. Technically, schedule() should not be
 	 * called from this thread, however somewhere below it might be,