diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
index 9942123a512..b86275ecfea 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/valgrind/default.nix
@@ -1,18 +1,15 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, gdb, llvm, cctools, xnu, bootstrap_cmds, autoreconfHook }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, gdb, llvm, cctools, xnu, bootstrap_cmds }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "valgrind-3.14.0";
+  name = "valgrind-3.15.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "19ds42jwd89zrsjb94g7gizkkzipn8xik3xykrpcqxylxyzi2z03";
+    sha256 = "1ccawxrni8brcvwhygy12iprkvz409hbr9xkk1bd03gnm2fplz21";
   };
 
-  # autoreconfHook is needed to pick up patching of Makefile.am
-  # Remove when the patch no longer applies.
-  patches = [ ./coregrind-makefile-race.patch ];
   # Perl is needed for `cg_annotate'.
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook perl ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ perl ];
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" "man" "doc" ];