diff --git a/src/client/linux/crash_generation/crash_generation_server.cc b/src/client/linux/crash_generation/crash_generation_server.cc
index 8ec95038..1abf826c 100644
--- a/src/client/linux/crash_generation/crash_generation_server.cc
+++ b/src/client/linux/crash_generation/crash_generation_server.cc
@@ -51,116 +51,6 @@
 
 static const char kCommandQuit = 'x';
 
-static bool
-GetInodeForFileDescriptor(ino_t* inode_out, int fd)
-{
-  assert(inode_out);
-
-  struct stat buf;
-  if (fstat(fd, &buf) < 0)
-    return false;
-
-  if (!S_ISSOCK(buf.st_mode))
-    return false;
-
-  *inode_out = buf.st_ino;
-  return true;
-}
-
-// expected prefix of the target of the /proc/self/fd/%d link for a socket
-static const char kSocketLinkPrefix[] = "socket:[";
-
-// Parse a symlink in /proc/pid/fd/$x and return the inode number of the
-// socket.
-//   inode_out: (output) set to the inode number on success
-//   path: e.g. /proc/1234/fd/5 (must be a UNIX domain socket descriptor)
-static bool
-GetInodeForProcPath(ino_t* inode_out, const char* path)
-{
-  assert(inode_out);
-  assert(path);
-
-  char buf[PATH_MAX];
-  if (!google_breakpad::SafeReadLink(path, buf)) {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  if (0 != memcmp(kSocketLinkPrefix, buf, sizeof(kSocketLinkPrefix) - 1)) {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  char* endptr;
-  const uint64_t inode_ul =
-      strtoull(buf + sizeof(kSocketLinkPrefix) - 1, &endptr, 10);
-  if (*endptr != ']')
-    return false;
-
-  if (inode_ul == ULLONG_MAX) {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  *inode_out = inode_ul;
-  return true;
-}
-
-static bool
-FindProcessHoldingSocket(pid_t* pid_out, ino_t socket_inode)
-{
-  assert(pid_out);
-  bool already_found = false;
-
-  DIR* proc = opendir("/proc");
-  if (!proc) {
-    return false;
-  }
-
-  std::vector<pid_t> pids;
-
-  struct dirent* dent;
-  while ((dent = readdir(proc))) {
-    char* endptr;
-    const unsigned long int pid_ul = strtoul(dent->d_name, &endptr, 10);
-    if (pid_ul == ULONG_MAX || '\0' != *endptr)
-      continue;
-    pids.push_back(pid_ul);
-  }
-  closedir(proc);
-
-  for (std::vector<pid_t>::const_iterator
-       i = pids.begin(); i != pids.end(); ++i) {
-    const pid_t current_pid = *i;
-    char buf[PATH_MAX];
-    snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "/proc/%d/fd", current_pid);
-    DIR* fd = opendir(buf);
-    if (!fd)
-      continue;
-
-    while ((dent = readdir(fd))) {
-      if (snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "/proc/%d/fd/%s", current_pid,
-                   dent->d_name) >= static_cast<int>(sizeof(buf))) {
-        continue;
-      }
-
-      ino_t fd_inode;
-      if (GetInodeForProcPath(&fd_inode, buf)
-          && fd_inode == socket_inode) {
-        if (already_found) {
-          closedir(fd);
-          return false;
-        }
-
-        already_found = true;
-        *pid_out = current_pid;
-        break;
-      }
-    }
-
-    closedir(fd);
-  }
-
-  return already_found;
-}
-
 namespace google_breakpad {
 
 CrashGenerationServer::CrashGenerationServer(
@@ -367,23 +257,6 @@ CrashGenerationServer::ClientEvent(short revents)
     return true;
   }
 
-  // Kernel bug workaround (broken in 2.6.30 at least):
-  // The kernel doesn't translate PIDs in SCM_CREDENTIALS across PID
-  // namespaces. Thus |crashing_pid| might be garbage from our point of view.
-  // In the future we can remove this workaround, but we have to wait a couple
-  // of years to be sure that it's worked its way out into the world.
-
-  ino_t inode_number;
-  if (!GetInodeForFileDescriptor(&inode_number, signal_fd)) {
-    close(signal_fd);
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  if (!FindProcessHoldingSocket(&crashing_pid, inode_number - 1)) {
-    close(signal_fd);
-    return true;
-  }
-
   string minidump_filename;
   if (!MakeMinidumpFilename(minidump_filename))
     return true;