diff --git a/tests/integration/cgroups.bats b/tests/integration/cgroups.bats
index 8ef7d081169..082d48cc745 100644
--- a/tests/integration/cgroups.bats
+++ b/tests/integration/cgroups.bats
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ load helpers
 
 function teardown() {
 	teardown_bundle
+	teardown_loopdevs
 }
 
 function setup() {
@@ -153,16 +154,28 @@ function setup() {
 @test "runc run (per-device io weight for bfq)" {
 	requires root # to create a loop device
 
-	dd if=/dev/zero of=backing.img bs=4096 count=1
-	dev=$(losetup --find --show backing.img) || skip "unable to create a loop device"
+	dev="$(setup_loopdev)"
+
+	# Some distributions (like openSUSE) have udev configured to forcefully
+	# reset the scheduler for loopN devices to be "none", which breaks this
+	# test. We cannot modify the udev behaviour of the host, but since this is
+	# usually triggered by the "change" event from losetup, we can wait for a
+	# little bit before continuing the test. For more details, see
+	# <https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/4781>.
+	sleep 2s
 
 	# See if BFQ scheduler is available.
 	if ! { grep -qw bfq "/sys/block/${dev#/dev/}/queue/scheduler" &&
 		echo bfq >"/sys/block/${dev#/dev/}/queue/scheduler"; }; then
-		losetup -d "$dev"
 		skip "BFQ scheduler not available"
 	fi
 
+	# Check that the device still has the right scheduler, in case we lost the
+	# race above...
+	if ! grep -qw '\[bfq\]' "/sys/block/${dev#/dev/}/queue/scheduler"; then
+		skip "udev is configured to reset loop device io scheduler"
+	fi
+
 	set_cgroups_path
 
 	IFS=$' \t:' read -r major minor <<<"$(lsblk -nd -o MAJ:MIN "$dev")"
@@ -198,9 +211,6 @@ function setup() {
 EOF
 	weights2=$(get_cgroup_value $file)
 
-	# The loop device itself is no longer needed.
-	losetup -d "$dev"
-
 	# Check original values.
 	grep '^default 333$' <<<"$weights1"
 	grep "^$major:$minor 444$" <<<"$weights1"
@@ -213,12 +223,8 @@ EOF
 @test "runc run (per-device multiple iops via unified)" {
 	requires root cgroups_v2
 
-	dd if=/dev/zero of=backing1.img bs=4096 count=1
-	dev1=$(losetup --find --show backing1.img) || skip "unable to create a loop device"
-
-	# Second device.
-	dd if=/dev/zero of=backing2.img bs=4096 count=1
-	dev2=$(losetup --find --show backing2.img) || skip "unable to create a loop device"
+	dev1="$(setup_loopdev)"
+	dev2="$(setup_loopdev)"
 
 	set_cgroups_path
 
@@ -233,10 +239,6 @@ EOF
 	runc run -d --console-socket "$CONSOLE_SOCKET" test_dev_weight
 	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
 
-	# The loop devices are no longer needed.
-	losetup -d "$dev1"
-	losetup -d "$dev2"
-
 	weights=$(get_cgroup_value "io.max")
 	grep "^$major1:$minor1 .* riops=333 wiops=444$" <<<"$weights"
 	grep "^$major2:$minor2 .* riops=555 wiops=666$" <<<"$weights"
diff --git a/tests/integration/helpers.bash b/tests/integration/helpers.bash
index e0397bcc6d4..4e8e070628e 100755
--- a/tests/integration/helpers.bash
+++ b/tests/integration/helpers.bash
@@ -791,6 +791,29 @@ function teardown_seccompagent() {
 	rm -f "$SECCCOMP_AGENT_SOCKET"
 }
 
+LOOPBACK_DEVICE_LIST="$(mktemp "$BATS_TMPDIR/losetup.XXXXXX")"
+
+function setup_loopdev() {
+	local backing dev
+	backing="$(mktemp "$BATS_RUN_TMPDIR/backing.img.XXXXXX")"
+	truncate --size=4K "$backing"
+
+	dev="$(losetup --find --show "$backing")" || skip "unable to create a loop device"
+	echo "$dev" >>"$LOOPBACK_DEVICE_LIST"
+
+	unlink "$backing"
+	echo "$dev"
+}
+
+function teardown_loopdevs() {
+	[ -s "$LOOPBACK_DEVICE_LIST" ] || return 0
+	while IFS= read -r dev; do
+		echo "losetup -d '$dev'" >&2
+		losetup -d "$dev"
+	done <"$LOOPBACK_DEVICE_LIST"
+	truncate --size=0 "$LOOPBACK_DEVICE_LIST"
+}
+
 function setup_bundle() {
 	local image="$1"