diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/lxcfs/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/lxcfs/default.nix
index a32f99600cd..3953ff1915a 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/lxcfs/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/lxcfs/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, help2man, fuse
-, enableDebugBuild ? false }:
+{ config, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, help2man, fuse
+, enableDebugBuild ? config.lxcfs.enableDebugBuild or false }:
 
 with stdenv.lib;
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7892d063aa4..f5471c2374d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4036,9 +4036,7 @@ in
   ltris = callPackage ../games/ltris { };
 
   lxc = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lxc { };
-  lxcfs = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lxcfs {
-    enableDebugBuild = config.lxcfs.enableDebugBuild or false;
-  };
+  lxcfs = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lxcfs { };
   lxd = callPackage ../tools/admin/lxd { };
 
   lzfse = callPackage ../tools/compression/lzfse { };