diff --git a/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/cgroups.go b/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/cgroups.go
index 3d7183cd1e..0c6976709a 100644
--- a/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/cgroups.go
+++ b/src/runtime/pkg/resourcecontrol/cgroups.go
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ func sandboxDevices() []specs.LinuxDeviceCgroup {
 		"/dev/zero",
 		"/dev/urandom",
 		"/dev/console",
-		"/dev/ptmx",
 	}
 
 	// Processes running in a device-cgroup are constrained, they have acccess