diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/root_context_linux.go b/pkg/kubelet/root_context_linux.go
index f0da41b66ed..73be6cbe95e 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/root_context_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/root_context_linux.go
@@ -31,17 +31,5 @@ func (kl *Kubelet) getRootDirContext() (string, error) {
 	}
 
 	// Get the SELinux context of the rootDir.
-	rootContext, err := selinux.Getfilecon(kl.getRootDir())
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	// There is a libcontainer bug where the null byte is not stripped from
-	// the result of reading some selinux xattrs; strip it.
-	//
-	// TODO: remove when https://github.com/docker/libcontainer/issues/499
-	// is fixed
-	rootContext = rootContext[:len(rootContext)-1]
-
-	return rootContext, nil
+	return selinux.Getfilecon(kl.getRootDir())
 }