diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 8e563cf2b5e711a0b45e37203000446785c9e6e9..56a8ca93a971810413714311cc917d25cb4d31dd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5477,6 +5477,7 @@ enqueue_task_fair(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 	struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
 	struct sched_entity *se = &p->se;
 	int idle_h_nr_running = task_has_idle_policy(p);
+	int task_new = !(flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP);
 
 	/*
 	 * The code below (indirectly) updates schedutil which looks at
@@ -5549,7 +5550,7 @@ 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);
 
 enqueue_throttle: