diff --git a/libcontainer/init_linux.go b/libcontainer/init_linux.go
index 7e1298c4d16..e0a65d5cc8f 100644
--- a/libcontainer/init_linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/init_linux.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"runtime/debug"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/containerd/console"
 	"github.com/moby/sys/user"
@@ -225,9 +226,7 @@ func containerInit(t initType, config *initConfig, pipe *syncSocket, consoleSock
 
 	// Clean the RLIMIT_NOFILE cache in go runtime.
 	// Issue: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/4195
-	if containsRlimit(config.Rlimits, unix.RLIMIT_NOFILE) {
-		system.ClearRlimitNofileCache()
-	}
+	maybeClearRlimitNofileCache(config.Rlimits)
 
 	switch t {
 	case initSetns:
@@ -655,13 +654,16 @@ func setupRoute(config *configs.Config) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-func containsRlimit(limits []configs.Rlimit, resource int) bool {
+func maybeClearRlimitNofileCache(limits []configs.Rlimit) {
 	for _, rlimit := range limits {
-		if rlimit.Type == resource {
-			return true
+		if rlimit.Type == syscall.RLIMIT_NOFILE {
+			system.ClearRlimitNofileCache(&syscall.Rlimit{
+				Cur: rlimit.Soft,
+				Max: rlimit.Hard,
+			})
+			return
 		}
 	}
-	return false
 }
 
 func setupRlimits(limits []configs.Rlimit, pid int) error {
diff --git a/libcontainer/system/linux.go b/libcontainer/system/linux.go
index 4d5565b25f4..368364baf04 100644
--- a/libcontainer/system/linux.go
+++ b/libcontainer/system/linux.go
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
-	"sync/atomic"
 	"syscall"
 	"unsafe"
 
@@ -16,21 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
 
-//go:linkname syscallOrigRlimitNofile syscall.origRlimitNofile
-var syscallOrigRlimitNofile atomic.Pointer[syscall.Rlimit]
-
-// ClearRlimitNofileCache is to clear go runtime's nofile rlimit cache.
-func ClearRlimitNofileCache() {
-	// As reported in issue #4195, the new version of go runtime(since 1.19)
-	// will cache rlimit-nofile. Before executing execve, the rlimit-nofile
-	// of the process will be restored with the cache. In runc, this will
-	// cause the rlimit-nofile setting by the parent process for the container
-	// to become invalid. It can be solved by clearing this cache. But
-	// unfortunately, go stdlib doesn't provide such function, so we need to
-	// link to the private var `origRlimitNofile` in package syscall to hack.
-	syscallOrigRlimitNofile.Store(nil)
-}
-
 type ParentDeathSignal int
 
 func (p ParentDeathSignal) Restore() error {
diff --git a/libcontainer/system/rlimit_linux.go b/libcontainer/system/rlimit_linux.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4595fa82aa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libcontainer/system/rlimit_linux.go
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+//go:build go1.23
+
+package system
+
+import (
+	"syscall"
+)
+
+// ClearRlimitNofileCache clears go runtime's nofile rlimit cache. The argument
+// is process RLIMIT_NOFILE values. Relies on go.dev/cl/588076.
+func ClearRlimitNofileCache(lim *syscall.Rlimit) {
+	// Ignore the return values since we only need to clean the cache,
+	// the limit is going to be set via unix.Prlimit elsewhere.
+	_ = syscall.Setrlimit(syscall.RLIMIT_NOFILE, lim)
+}
diff --git a/libcontainer/system/rlimit_linux_go122.go b/libcontainer/system/rlimit_linux_go122.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..865d1802214
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libcontainer/system/rlimit_linux_go122.go
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+//go:build !go1.23
+
+// TODO: remove this file once go 1.22 is no longer supported.
+
+package system
+
+import (
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"syscall"
+	_ "unsafe" // Needed for go:linkname to work.
+)
+
+//go:linkname syscallOrigRlimitNofile syscall.origRlimitNofile
+var syscallOrigRlimitNofile atomic.Pointer[syscall.Rlimit]
+
+// ClearRlimitNofileCache clears go runtime's nofile rlimit cache.
+// The argument is process RLIMIT_NOFILE values.
+func ClearRlimitNofileCache(_ *syscall.Rlimit) {
+	// As reported in issue #4195, the new version of go runtime(since 1.19)
+	// will cache rlimit-nofile. Before executing execve, the rlimit-nofile
+	// of the process will be restored with the cache. In runc, this will
+	// cause the rlimit-nofile setting by the parent process for the container
+	// to become invalid. It can be solved by clearing this cache. But
+	// unfortunately, go stdlib doesn't provide such function, so we need to
+	// link to the private var `origRlimitNofile` in package syscall to hack.
+	syscallOrigRlimitNofile.Store(nil)
+}