diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c
index 46b76b6ade..1279b9bb3e 100644
--- a/src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c
+++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c
@@ -429,10 +429,8 @@ int mount_sysfs(const char *dest, MountSettingsMask mount_settings) {
         /* Create mountpoint for cgroups. Otherwise we are not allowed since we
          * remount /sys read-only.
          */
-        if (cg_ns_supported()) {
-                x = prefix_roota(top, "/fs/cgroup");
-                (void) mkdir_p(x, 0755);
-        }
+        x = prefix_roota(top, "/fs/cgroup");
+        (void) mkdir_p(x, 0755);
 
         return mount_verbose(LOG_ERR, NULL, top, NULL,
                              MS_BIND|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_REMOUNT|extra_flags, NULL);