diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
index 0e8367c546248987418191c6ab7b14c5be61bec9..5b5424cb339151db85754685f00e2c168ff37908 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
@@ -1390,20 +1390,15 @@ static void fill_prstatus(struct elf_prstatus *prstatus,
 	prstatus->pr_pgrp = task_pgrp_vnr(p);
 	prstatus->pr_sid = task_session_vnr(p);
 	if (thread_group_leader(p)) {
+		struct task_cputime cputime;
+
 		/*
-		 * This is the record for the group leader.  Add in the
-		 * cumulative times of previous dead threads.  This total
-		 * won't include the time of each live thread whose state
-		 * is included in the core dump.  The final total reported
-		 * to our parent process when it calls wait4 will include
-		 * those sums as well as the little bit more time it takes
-		 * this and each other thread to finish dying after the
-		 * core dump synchronization phase.
+		 * This is the record for the group leader.  It shows the
+		 * group-wide total, not its individual thread total.
 		 */
-		cputime_to_timeval(cputime_add(p->utime, p->signal->utime),
-				   &prstatus->pr_utime);
-		cputime_to_timeval(cputime_add(p->stime, p->signal->stime),
-				   &prstatus->pr_stime);
+		thread_group_cputime(p, &cputime);
+		cputime_to_timeval(cputime.utime, &prstatus->pr_utime);
+		cputime_to_timeval(cputime.stime, &prstatus->pr_stime);
 	} else {
 		cputime_to_timeval(p->utime, &prstatus->pr_utime);
 		cputime_to_timeval(p->stime, &prstatus->pr_stime);