diff --git a/base/comps/rust-nix/fix-4part-kernel-version.patch b/base/comps/rust-nix/fix-4part-kernel-version.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c1d4e3eb32d..00000000000
--- a/base/comps/rust-nix/fix-4part-kernel-version.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/test/common/mod.rs b/test/common/mod.rs
-index 7dbdfbf..027611a 100644
---- a/test/common/mod.rs
-+++ b/test/common/mod.rs
-@@ -133,7 +133,16 @@ cfg_if! {
-                     .replace("_", "-")
-                     // Cirrus-CI reports version as 4.19.112+ .  Remove the +
-                     .replace("+", "");
--                let mut version = Version::parse(fixed_release).unwrap();
-+                // Some distros (e.g. Azure Linux) use 4-part kernel versions
-+                // like 6.6.121.1-1.azl3.  Semver only accepts 3 numeric
-+                // components, so replace the dot after the 3rd component with
-+                // a hyphen so the extra part becomes a pre-release suffix
-+                // (which we clear below anyway).
-+                let fixed_release = match fixed_release.match_indices('.').nth(2) {
-+                    Some((pos, _)) => fixed_release[..pos].to_string() + &fixed_release[pos..].replacen('.', "-", 1),
-+                    None => fixed_release.to_string(),
-+                };
-+                let mut version = Version::parse(&fixed_release).unwrap();
- 
-                 //Keep only numeric parts
-                 version.pre = semver::Prerelease::EMPTY;
diff --git a/base/comps/rust-nix/rust-nix.comp.toml b/base/comps/rust-nix/rust-nix.comp.toml
index 3c0a76673f8..6735c963b68 100644
--- a/base/comps/rust-nix/rust-nix.comp.toml
+++ b/base/comps/rust-nix/rust-nix.comp.toml
@@ -1,20 +1,5 @@
 [components.rust-nix]
 
-# Azure Linux kernels use 4-part versions (e.g. 6.6.121.1-1.azl3) which the
-# semver crate in test helpers cannot parse.  Patch the require_kernel_version!
-# macro to handle this by truncating to 3 numeric components.
-[[components.rust-nix.overlays]]
-description = "Add patch file to handle 4-part kernel versions in the require_kernel_version test macro"
-type = "file-add"
-file = "fix-4part-kernel-version.patch"
-source = "fix-4part-kernel-version.patch"
-
-[[components.rust-nix.overlays]]
-description = "Register the 4-part kernel version fix patch in the spec"
-type = "spec-insert-tag"
-tag = "Patch9999"
-value = "fix-4part-kernel-version.patch"
-
 # inotify tests fail with ENOSPC in containerized/mock build environments due
 # to exhausted inotify instance limits.
 [[components.rust-nix.overlays]]