diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index aa7b39a114c9..5a307b3bb2d1 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -3359,20 +3359,8 @@ static struct tgid_iter next_tgid(struct pid_namespace *ns, struct tgid_iter ite
 	pid = find_ge_pid(iter.tgid, ns);
 	if (pid) {
 		iter.tgid = pid_nr_ns(pid, ns);
-		iter.task = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
-		/* What we to know is if the pid we have find is the
-		 * pid of a thread_group_leader.  Testing for task
-		 * being a thread_group_leader is the obvious thing
-		 * todo but there is a window when it fails, due to
-		 * the pid transfer logic in de_thread.
-		 *
-		 * So we perform the straight forward test of seeing
-		 * if the pid we have found is the pid of a thread
-		 * group leader, and don't worry if the task we have
-		 * found doesn't happen to be a thread group leader.
-		 * As we don't care in the case of readdir.
-		 */
-		if (!iter.task || !has_group_leader_pid(iter.task)) {
+		iter.task = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_TGID);
+		if (!iter.task) {
 			iter.tgid += 1;
 			goto retry;
 		}