cannot grant access to another group in my project

Summary

I cannot grant access to another group in my project. I am the owner of the subgroup the project is in, but not specifically of the project itself. I cannot grant myself ownership to that project.

Steps to reproduce

When I go to the project -> members -> invite group, only two groups are listed: I suspect those are groups I am a part of, but it's unclear why those two groups are there (because other groups I'm a member of are not listed). The group I want to add is not listed.

Example Project

I cannot reproduce this on gitlab.com.

What is the current bug behavior?

Only a subset of the groups of the gitlab instance are listed, presumably only the groups I'm a member of.

What is the expected correct behavior?

All groups should be listed or at least be selectable/searchable somehow.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

The dialog, as a user, shows only two groups:

As an instance admin, I see way more:

Output of checks

Results of GitLab environment info

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System information
System:         Debian 10
Current User:   git
Using RVM:      no
Ruby Version:   2.7.2p137
Gem Version:    3.1.4
Bundler Version:2.1.4
Rake Version:   13.0.1
Redis Version:  5.0.9
Git Version:    2.29.0
Sidekiq Version:5.2.9
Go Version:     unknown

GitLab information
Version:        13.7.4
Revision:       2f14978e280
Directory:      /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails
DB Adapter:     PostgreSQL
DB Version:     11.9
URL:            https://gitlab.torproject.org
HTTP Clone URL: https://gitlab.torproject.org/some-group/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL:  git@gitlab.torproject.org:some-group/some-project.git
Using LDAP:     no
Using Omniauth: yes
Omniauth Providers: 

GitLab Shell
Version:        13.14.0
Repository storage paths:
- default:      /var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories
GitLab Shell path:              /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell
Git:            /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git

Results of GitLab application Check

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Checking GitLab subtasks ...
Checking GitLab Shell ...
GitLab Shell: ... GitLab Shell version >= 13.14.0 ? ... OK (13.14.0)
Running /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell/bin/check
Internal API available: OK
Redis available via internal API: OK
gitlab-shell self-check successful
Checking GitLab Shell ... Finished
Checking Gitaly ...
Gitaly: ... default ... OK
Checking Gitaly ... Finished
Checking Sidekiq ...
Sidekiq: ... Running? ... yes
Number of Sidekiq processes ... 1
Checking Sidekiq ... Finished
Checking Incoming Email ...
Incoming Email: ... Checking Reply by email ...
IMAP server credentials are correct? ... Checking git@gitlab.torproject.org
yes
Init.d configured correctly? ... skipped
MailRoom running? ... skipped
Checking Reply by email ... Finished
Checking Incoming Email ... Finished
Checking LDAP ...
LDAP: ... LDAP is disabled in config/gitlab.yml
Checking LDAP ... Finished
Checking GitLab App ...
Git configured correctly? ... yes
Database config exists? ... yes
All migrations up? ... yes
Database contains orphaned GroupMembers? ... no
GitLab config exists? ... yes
GitLab config up to date? ... yes
Log directory writable? ... yes
Tmp directory writable? ... yes
Uploads directory exists? ... yes
Uploads directory has correct permissions? ... yes
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Redis version >= 4.0.0? ... yes
Ruby version >= 2.7.2 ? ... yes (2.7.2)
Git version >= 2.29.0 ? ... yes (2.29.0)
Git user has default SSH configuration? ... yes
Active users: ... 705
Is authorized keys file accessible? ... yes
GitLab configured to store new projects in hashed storage? ... yes
All projects are in hashed storage? ... yes
Checking GitLab App ... Finished
Checking GitLab subtasks ... Finished

Possible fixes

I haven't investigated the source, but it seems to me that at least searching for a group should show it, even if I'm not part of it. I understand that we not want to list all groups (especially on large sites like gitlab.com) to to restrict the length of the list, but at least we should be able to find other groups we know about.

PS: I did try to search for a similar issue in the issue queue, but I am getting 500 errors when searching.