diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index c7395d97e4cb7c33f26925569adff8f7e3007d4e..e64b0794060e6d89a7d3e216efe8189fffdbb8d7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3923,7 +3923,7 @@ static long effective_load(struct task_group *tg, int cpu, long wl, long wg)
 {
 	struct sched_entity *se = tg->se[cpu];
 
-	if (!tg->parent || !wl)	/* the trivial, non-cgroup case */
+	if (!tg->parent)	/* the trivial, non-cgroup case */
 		return wl;
 
 	for_each_sched_entity(se) {