diff --git a/alpine/kernel/Dockerfile.aufs b/alpine/kernel/Dockerfile.aufs
index 95025c998..5cca69998 100644
--- a/alpine/kernel/Dockerfile.aufs
+++ b/alpine/kernel/Dockerfile.aufs
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ RUN curl -fsSL -o linux-${KERNEL_VERSION}.tar.xz ${KERNEL_SOURCE}
 
 RUN cat linux-${KERNEL_VERSION}.tar.xz | tar --absolute-names -xJ &&  mv /linux-${KERNEL_VERSION} /linux
 
-# this is aufs4.9 20161219
+# this is aufs4.9 20170130
 ENV AUFS_REPO       https://github.com/sfjro/aufs4-standalone
 ENV AUFS_BRANCH     aufs4.9
-ENV AUFS_COMMIT     0d8e71c28da317ec6371b6b95b46a70cefe13777
+ENV AUFS_COMMIT     6f44e3b0bd99399516982a04782d78f8dae96600
 
 # Download AUFS
 RUN git clone -b "$AUFS_BRANCH" "$AUFS_REPO" /aufs && \
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ RUN if [ $DEBUG -ne "0" ]; then \
     fi
 
 # Apply local patches
-COPY patches-4.9/* patches-4.9-aufs/* /patches/
+COPY patches-4.9/* /patches/
 RUN cd /linux && \
     set -e && for patch in /patches/*.patch; do \
         echo "Applying $patch"; \
diff --git a/alpine/kernel/Makefile b/alpine/kernel/Makefile
index eb8b5762a..8f48907a9 100644
--- a/alpine/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/alpine/kernel/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ DEBUG ?= 0
 all:	x86_64/vmlinuz64
 
 ifdef AUFS
-x86_64/vmlinuz64: Dockerfile.aufs kernel_config kernel_config.debug kernel_config.aufs patches-4.9 patches-4.9-aufs
+x86_64/vmlinuz64: Dockerfile.aufs kernel_config kernel_config.debug kernel_config.aufs patches-4.9
 	mkdir -p x86_64 etc lib usr sbin
 	BUILD=$$( tar cf - $^ | docker build -f Dockerfile.aufs --build-arg DEBUG=$(DEBUG) -q - ) && [ -n "$$BUILD" ] && echo "Built $$BUILD" && \
 	docker run --rm --net=none --log-driver=none $$BUILD cat aufs-utils.tar | tar xf - && \
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ x86_64/vmlinuz64: Dockerfile.aufs kernel_config kernel_config.debug kernel_confi
 	docker run --rm --net=none --log-driver=none $$BUILD tar cf - bzImage kernel-dev.tar kernel-headers.tar vmlinux kernel-modules.tar | tar xf - -C x86_64
 	mv x86_64/bzImage $@
 	mkdir -p etc/kernel-patches
-	cp -a patches-4.9/* patches-4.9-aufs/* etc/kernel-patches
+	cp -a patches-4.9/* etc/kernel-patches
 	tar xf x86_64/kernel-modules.tar
 else
 ifdef LTS4.4
diff --git a/alpine/kernel/patches-4.9-aufs/0001-aufs-posix-acl.patch b/alpine/kernel/patches-4.9-aufs/0001-aufs-posix-acl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d27d4f9b..000000000
--- a/alpine/kernel/patches-4.9-aufs/0001-aufs-posix-acl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-commit 750946c8bfce458490e7e4aba34f22893c16a297
-Author: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
-Date:   Mon Jan 23 03:36:33 2017 +0900
-
-    aufs: for v4.9, support posix acl
-    
-    The commit
-    	3801e27 2016-12-08 aufs: for v4.9-rc1, support new xattr scheme
-    was not enough, and supporting posix acl was missing.
-    
-    Reported-by: Justin Cormack <justin.cormack@docker.com>
-    See-also: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/30245#issuecomment-274152452
-    Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
-
-diff --git a/fs/aufs/xattr.c b/fs/aufs/xattr.c
-index d0834e4..35fcc50 100644
---- a/fs/aufs/xattr.c
-+++ b/fs/aufs/xattr.c
-@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
-  * handling xattr functions
-  */
- 
-+#include <linux/fs.h>
-+#include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>
- #include <linux/xattr.h>
- #include "aufs.h"
- 
-@@ -322,7 +324,11 @@ static const struct xattr_handler au_xattr_handler = {
- };
- 
- static const struct xattr_handler *au_xattr_handlers[] = {
--	&au_xattr_handler,
-+#ifdef CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL
-+	&posix_acl_access_xattr_handler,
-+	&posix_acl_default_xattr_handler,
-+#endif
-+	&au_xattr_handler, /* must be last */
- 	NULL
- };
-