diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/remove-sensitive-tests.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/remove-sensitive-tests.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ffae55058b..0000000000
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk/remove-sensitive-tests.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-From 354d24baf7c51977d22ff61ad42e6a2cbd4dc8ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:09:12 +0000
-Subject: [PATCH] gawk: remove load-sensitive tests
-
-These tests require an unloaded host as otherwise timing sensitive tests can fail
-https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14371
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
-Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
-
----
- test/Maketests | 10 ----------
- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/test/Maketests b/test/Maketests
-index 3a667af..f117697 100644
---- a/test/Maketests
-+++ b/test/Maketests
-@@ -2137,11 +2137,6 @@ symtab12:
- 	@-AWKPATH="$(srcdir)" $(AWK) -f $@.awk  >_$@ 2>&1 || echo EXIT CODE: $$? >>_$@
- 	@-$(CMP) "$(srcdir)"/$@.ok _$@ && rm -f _$@
- 
--timeout:
--	@echo $@ $(ZOS_FAIL)
--	@-AWKPATH="$(srcdir)" $(AWK) -f $@.awk  >_$@ 2>&1 || echo EXIT CODE: $$? >>_$@
--	@-$(CMP) "$(srcdir)"/$@.ok _$@ && rm -f _$@
--
- typedregex1:
- 	@echo $@
- 	@-AWKPATH="$(srcdir)" $(AWK) -f $@.awk  >_$@ 2>&1 || echo EXIT CODE: $$? >>_$@
-@@ -2371,11 +2366,6 @@ rwarray:
- 	@-AWKPATH="$(srcdir)" $(AWK) -f $@.awk  < "$(srcdir)"/$@.in >_$@ 2>&1 || echo EXIT CODE: $$? >>_$@
- 	@-$(CMP) "$(srcdir)"/$@.ok _$@ && rm -f _$@
- 
--time:
--	@echo $@
--	@-AWKPATH="$(srcdir)" $(AWK) -f $@.awk  >_$@ 2>&1 || echo EXIT CODE: $$? >>_$@
--	@-$(CMP) "$(srcdir)"/$@.ok _$@ && rm -f _$@
--
- mpfrbigint:
- 	@echo $@
- 	@-AWKPATH="$(srcdir)" $(AWK) -f $@.awk  -M >_$@ 2>&1 || echo EXIT CODE: $$? >>_$@
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.2.1.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.2.1.bb
index bbb26231a1..c914326563 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gawk/gawk_5.2.1.bb
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[readline] = "--with-readline,--without-readline,readline"
 PACKAGECONFIG[mpfr] = "--with-mpfr,--without-mpfr, mpfr"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gawk/gawk-${PV}.tar.gz \
-           file://remove-sensitive-tests.patch \
            file://run-ptest \
            "