diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6cb36c7ea391..a566c0739f77 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5500,7 +5500,6 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env,
 			struct sched_group *group, int load_idx,
 			int local_group, struct sg_lb_stats *sgs)
 {
-	unsigned long nr_running;
 	unsigned long load;
 	int i;
 
@@ -5509,8 +5508,6 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env,
 	for_each_cpu_and(i, sched_group_cpus(group), env->cpus) {
 		struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(i);
 
-		nr_running = rq->nr_running;
-
 		/* Bias balancing toward cpus of our domain */
 		if (local_group)
 			load = target_load(i, load_idx);
@@ -5518,7 +5515,7 @@ static inline void update_sg_lb_stats(struct lb_env *env,
 			load = source_load(i, load_idx);
 
 		sgs->group_load += load;
-		sgs->sum_nr_running += nr_running;
+		sgs->sum_nr_running += rq->nr_running;
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 		sgs->nr_numa_running += rq->nr_numa_running;
 		sgs->nr_preferred_running += rq->nr_preferred_running;