diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index a63f400013de..b9b9f19e80c1 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5624,14 +5624,14 @@ static void dequeue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 
 	}
 
-dequeue_throttle:
-	if (!se)
-		sub_nr_running(rq, 1);
+	/* At this point se is NULL and we are at root level*/
+	sub_nr_running(rq, 1);
 
 	/* balance early to pull high priority tasks */
 	if (unlikely(!was_sched_idle && sched_idle_rq(rq)))
 		rq->next_balance = jiffies;
 
+dequeue_throttle:
 	util_est_dequeue(&rq->cfs, p, task_sleep);
 	hrtick_update(rq);
 }