diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/utils.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/utils.go
index 8002c052999..f1e111606ba 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/utils.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/utils.go
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
-	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
 	units "github.com/docker/go-units"
@@ -43,8 +42,8 @@ var HugePageSizeUnitList = []string{"B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB"}
 // IsCgroup2UnifiedMode returns whether we are running in cgroup v2 unified mode.
 func IsCgroup2UnifiedMode() bool {
 	isUnifiedOnce.Do(func() {
-		var st syscall.Statfs_t
-		if err := syscall.Statfs(unifiedMountpoint, &st); err != nil {
+		var st unix.Statfs_t
+		if err := unix.Statfs(unifiedMountpoint, &st); err != nil {
 			panic("cannot statfs cgroup root")
 		}
 		isUnified = st.Type == unix.CGROUP2_SUPER_MAGIC