diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/paths.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/paths.go
index 1092331b2..c5d234acf 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/paths.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/fs/paths.go
@@ -164,9 +164,8 @@ func subsysPath(root, inner, subsystem string) (string, error) {
 		return filepath.Join(root, filepath.Base(mnt), inner), nil
 	}
 
-	// Use GetOwnCgroupPath instead of GetInitCgroupPath, because the creating
-	// process could in container and shared pid namespace with host, and
-	// /proc/1/cgroup could point to whole other world of cgroups.
+	// Use GetOwnCgroupPath for dind-like cases, when cgroupns is not
+	// available. This is ugly.
 	parentPath, err := cgroups.GetOwnCgroupPath(subsystem)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
diff --git a/libcontainer/cgroups/v1_utils.go b/libcontainer/cgroups/v1_utils.go
index 47c75f22b..8524c4684 100644
--- a/libcontainer/cgroups/v1_utils.go
+++ b/libcontainer/cgroups/v1_utils.go
@@ -236,27 +236,6 @@ func GetOwnCgroupPath(subsystem string) (string, error) {
 	return getCgroupPathHelper(subsystem, cgroup)
 }
 
-func GetInitCgroup(subsystem string) (string, error) {
-	if IsCgroup2UnifiedMode() {
-		return "", errUnified
-	}
-	cgroups, err := ParseCgroupFile("/proc/1/cgroup")
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	return getControllerPath(subsystem, cgroups)
-}
-
-func GetInitCgroupPath(subsystem string) (string, error) {
-	cgroup, err := GetInitCgroup(subsystem)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	return getCgroupPathHelper(subsystem, cgroup)
-}
-
 func getCgroupPathHelper(subsystem, cgroup string) (string, error) {
 	mnt, root, err := FindCgroupMountpointAndRoot("", subsystem)
 	if err != nil {