diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index e3088fa2256a..0e7a1bc655d5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -6600,7 +6600,8 @@ static int find_energy_efficient_cpu(struct task_struct *p, int prev_cpu, int sy
 
 	cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	if (sync && cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_running == 1 &&
-	    cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr)) {
+	    cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, p->cpus_ptr) &&
+	    task_fits_capacity(p, capacity_of(cpu))) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return cpu;
 	}