diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 06612217d85f..fd7dd1b31369 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6786,12 +6786,10 @@ void sched_submit_work(void)
 	 * If a worker goes to sleep, notify and ask workqueue whether it
 	 * wants to wake up a task to maintain concurrency.
 	 */
-	if (task_flags & (PF_WQ_WORKER | PF_IO_WORKER)) {
-		if (task_flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)
-			wq_worker_sleeping(tsk);
-		else
-			io_wq_worker_sleeping(tsk);
-	}
+	if (task_flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)
+		wq_worker_sleeping(tsk);
+	else if (task_flags & PF_IO_WORKER)
+		io_wq_worker_sleeping(tsk);
 
 	/*
 	 * spinlock and rwlock must not flush block requests.  This will