diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
index 227ce4883720..1d101423ca92 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
@@ -332,14 +332,12 @@ a process with a non-root euid to migrate a target process into a
 cgroup by writing its PID to the "cgroup.procs" file, the following
 conditions must be met.
 
-- The writer's euid must match either uid or suid of the target process.
-
 - The writer must have write access to the "cgroup.procs" file.
 
 - The writer must have write access to the "cgroup.procs" file of the
   common ancestor of the source and destination cgroups.
 
-The above three constraints ensure that while a delegatee may migrate
+The above two constraints ensure that while a delegatee may migrate
 processes around freely in the delegated sub-hierarchy it can't pull
 in from or push out to outside the sub-hierarchy.
 
@@ -354,10 +352,10 @@ all processes under C0 and C1 belong to U0.
 
 Let's also say U0 wants to write the PID of a process which is
 currently in C10 into "C00/cgroup.procs".  U0 has write access to the
-file and uid match on the process; however, the common ancestor of the
-source cgroup C10 and the destination cgroup C00 is above the points
-of delegation and U0 would not have write access to its "cgroup.procs"
-files and thus the write will be denied with -EACCES.
+file; however, the common ancestor of the source cgroup C10 and the
+destination cgroup C00 is above the points of delegation and U0 would
+not have write access to its "cgroup.procs" files and thus the write
+will be denied with -EACCES.
 
 
 2-6. Guidelines
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index a99b15f9b577..fe374f803b20 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -2349,20 +2349,9 @@ static int cgroup_procs_write_permission(struct task_struct *task,
 					 struct cgroup *dst_cgrp,
 					 struct kernfs_open_file *of)
 {
-	const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
-	const struct cred *tcred = get_task_cred(task);
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	/*
-	 * even if we're attaching all tasks in the thread group, we only
-	 * need to check permissions on one of them.
-	 */
-	if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) &&
-	    !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) &&
-	    !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->suid))
-		ret = -EACCES;
-
-	if (!ret && cgroup_on_dfl(dst_cgrp)) {
+	if (cgroup_on_dfl(dst_cgrp)) {
 		struct super_block *sb = of->file->f_path.dentry->d_sb;
 		struct cgroup *cgrp;
 		struct inode *inode;
@@ -2380,9 +2369,21 @@ static int cgroup_procs_write_permission(struct task_struct *task,
 			ret = inode_permission(inode, MAY_WRITE);
 			iput(inode);
 		}
+	} else {
+		const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
+		const struct cred *tcred = get_task_cred(task);
+
+		/*
+		 * even if we're attaching all tasks in the thread group,
+		 * we only need to check permissions on one of them.
+		 */
+		if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) &&
+		    !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) &&
+		    !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->suid))
+			ret = -EACCES;
+		put_cred(tcred);
 	}
 
-	put_cred(tcred);
 	return ret;
 }