diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/util-linux/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/util-linux/default.nix
index 81eeee68fba..ae13b7b267c 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/util-linux/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/util-linux/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, zlib, ncurses ? null, perl ? null, pam }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "util-linux-2.25.2";
+  name = "util-linux-2.26";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://kernel/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "e0457f715b73f4a349e1acb08cb410bf0edc9a74a3f75c357070f31f70e33cd6";
+    url = "mirror://kernel/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "a23c6f39dea0ed215ccd589509ffc7bb6f706f6e1a04760f493fb0fd7e93c489";
   };
 
   patches = [ ./rtcwake-search-PATH-for-shutdown.patch
-              ./unshare-fix-map-root-user.patch
             ];
 
   #FIXME: make it also work on non-nixos?
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/util-linux/unshare-fix-map-root-user.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/util-linux/unshare-fix-map-root-user.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d1531e110c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/util-linux/unshare-fix-map-root-user.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-In rare cases droping groups with setgroups(0, NULL) is an operation
-that can grant a user additional privileges.  User namespaces were
-allwoing that operation to unprivileged users and that had to be
-fixed.
-
-Update unshare --map-root-user to disable the setgroups operation
-before setting the gid_map.
-
-This is needed as after the security fix gid_map is restricted to
-privileged users unless setgroups has been disabled.
-
-Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
----
- include/pathnames.h |  1 +
- sys-utils/unshare.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
-
-diff --git a/include/pathnames.h b/include/pathnames.h
-index 1cc4e15e6e4f..1c53e4554268 100644
---- a/include/pathnames.h
-+++ b/include/pathnames.h
-@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
- 
- #define _PATH_PROC_UIDMAP	"/proc/self/uid_map"
- #define _PATH_PROC_GIDMAP	"/proc/self/gid_map"
-+#define _PATH_PROC_SETGROUPS	"/proc/self/setgroups"
- 
- #define _PATH_PROC_ATTR_CURRENT	"/proc/self/attr/current"
- #define _PATH_PROC_ATTR_EXEC	"/proc/self/attr/exec"
-diff --git a/sys-utils/unshare.c b/sys-utils/unshare.c
-index 95e4afbd055e..d409a7c936b6 100644
---- a/sys-utils/unshare.c
-+++ b/sys-utils/unshare.c
-@@ -39,6 +39,24 @@
- #include "pathnames.h"
- #include "all-io.h"
- 
-+static void disable_setgroups(void)
-+{
-+	const char *file = _PATH_PROC_SETGROUPS;
-+	const char *deny = "deny";
-+	int fd;
-+
-+	fd = open(file, O_WRONLY);
-+	if (fd < 0) {
-+		if (errno == ENOENT)
-+			return;
-+		 err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot open %s"), file);
-+	}
-+
-+	if (write_all(fd, deny, strlen(deny)))
-+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("write failed %s"), file);
-+	close(fd);
-+}
-+
- static void map_id(const char *file, uint32_t from, uint32_t to)
- {
- 	char *buf;
-@@ -178,6 +196,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
- 	}
- 
- 	if (maproot) {
-+		disable_setgroups();
- 		map_id(_PATH_PROC_UIDMAP, 0, real_euid);
- 		map_id(_PATH_PROC_GIDMAP, 0, real_egid);
- 	}