diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers.go b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers.go
index ce82629bfae..1fb5e8f0aa5 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/dockershim/helpers.go
@@ -267,12 +267,6 @@ func getApparmorSecurityOpts(sc *runtimeapi.LinuxContainerSecurityContext, separ
 }
 
 func getNetworkNamespace(c *dockertypes.ContainerJSON) string {
-	if c.State.Pid == 0 {
-		// Docker reports pid 0 for an exited container. We can't use it to
-		// check the network namespace, so return an empty string instead.
-		glog.V(4).Infof("Cannot find network namespace for the terminated container %q", c.ID)
-		return ""
-	}
 	return fmt.Sprintf(dockerNetNSFmt, c.State.Pid)
 }