diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/qos/policy.go b/pkg/kubelet/qos/policy.go
index 313c044cafd..8eb97b80093 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/qos/policy.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/qos/policy.go
@@ -16,20 +16,14 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 package qos
 
-import (
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/v1"
-	kubetypes "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types"
-)
+import "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/v1"
 
 const (
 	// PodInfraOOMAdj is very docker specific. For arbitrary runtime, it may not make
 	// sense to set sandbox level oom score, e.g. a sandbox could only be a namespace
 	// without a process.
 	// TODO: Handle infra container oom score adj in a runtime agnostic way.
-	// TODO: Should handle critical pod oom score adj with a proper preemption priority.
-	// This is the workaround for https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38322.
 	PodInfraOOMAdj        int = -998
-	CriticalPodOOMAdj     int = -998
 	KubeletOOMScoreAdj    int = -999
 	DockerOOMScoreAdj     int = -999
 	KubeProxyOOMScoreAdj  int = -999
@@ -44,10 +38,6 @@ const (
 // and 1000. Containers with higher OOM scores are killed if the system runs out of memory.
 // See https://lwn.net/Articles/391222/ for more information.
 func GetContainerOOMScoreAdjust(pod *v1.Pod, container *v1.Container, memoryCapacity int64) int {
-	if kubetypes.IsCriticalPod(pod) {
-		return CriticalPodOOMAdj
-	}
-
 	switch GetPodQOS(pod) {
 	case v1.PodQOSGuaranteed:
 		// Guaranteed containers should be the last to get killed.
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/qos/policy_test.go b/pkg/kubelet/qos/policy_test.go
index b6247ec6125..6cd6f2d6c8c 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/qos/policy_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/qos/policy_test.go
@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource"
-	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/v1"
-	kubetypes "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -137,25 +135,6 @@ var (
 			},
 		},
 	}
-	criticalPodWithNoLimit = v1.Pod{
-		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
-			Annotations: map[string]string{
-				kubetypes.CriticalPodAnnotationKey: "",
-			},
-		},
-		Spec: v1.PodSpec{
-			Containers: []v1.Container{
-				{
-					Resources: v1.ResourceRequirements{
-						Requests: v1.ResourceList{
-							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceMemory): resource.MustParse(strconv.Itoa(standardMemoryAmount - 1)),
-							v1.ResourceName(v1.ResourceCPU):    resource.MustParse("5m"),
-						},
-					},
-				},
-			},
-		},
-	}
 )
 
 type oomTest struct {
@@ -209,12 +188,6 @@ func TestGetContainerOOMScoreAdjust(t *testing.T) {
 			lowOOMScoreAdj:  2,
 			highOOMScoreAdj: 2,
 		},
-		{
-			pod:             &criticalPodWithNoLimit,
-			memoryCapacity:  standardMemoryAmount,
-			lowOOMScoreAdj:  -998,
-			highOOMScoreAdj: -998,
-		},
 	}
 	for _, test := range oomTests {
 		oomScoreAdj := GetContainerOOMScoreAdjust(test.pod, &test.pod.Spec.Containers[0], test.memoryCapacity)