diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
index 7d045115b594..5d60903ee86f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   });
 
   patches = [
-    # Since binutils 2.22, DT_NEEDED flags aren't copied for dynamic outputs.
-    # That requires upstream changes for things to work. So we can patch it to
-    # get the old behaviour by now.
-    ./dtneeded.patch
-
     # Make binutils output deterministic by default.
     ./deterministic.patch
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/dtneeded.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/dtneeded.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 3754ec569eec..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/dtneeded.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/ld/ldmain.c b/ld/ldmain.c
-index 15f8ebf..f71241e 100644
---- a/ld/ldmain.c
-+++ b/ld/ldmain.c
-@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
-   lang_init ();
-   ldemul_before_parse ();
-   lang_has_input_file = FALSE;
-+  input_flags.add_DT_NEEDED_for_dynamic = TRUE;
-   parse_args (argc, argv);
- 
-   if (config.hash_table_size != 0)