diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 2e46ab782c8bf2ef16f861c3512714781a4654af..a8015dddee8202dee364b00a63d66a69f04e7d85 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -4396,6 +4396,9 @@ account_entity_dequeue(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 	if (entity_is_task(se)) {
 		account_numa_dequeue(rq_of(cfs_rq), task_of(se));
 		list_del_init(&se->group_node);
+#ifdef CONFIG_GROUP_IDENTITY
+		cfs_rq->nr_tasks--;
+#endif
 	}
 #endif
 	cfs_rq->nr_running--;