diff --git a/files/ebtables.workaround b/files/ebtables.workaround
deleted file mode 100644
index c8af51fad5..0000000000
--- a/files/ebtables.workaround
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Copyright 2015 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-#
-# This is a terrible, terrible, truly terrible work around for
-# environments that have libvirt < 1.2.11. ebtables requires that you
-# specifically tell it you would like to not race and get punched in
-# the face when 2 run at the same time with a --concurrent flag.
-
-flock -w 300 /var/lock/ebtables.nova /sbin/ebtables.real $@
diff --git a/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt b/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
index 1ae049226a..0369b7596b 100644
--- a/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
+++ b/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt
@@ -64,11 +64,6 @@ function install_libvirt {
         install_package qemu-system
         install_package libvirt-bin libvirt-dev
         pip_install_gr libvirt-python
-        if [[ ${DISTRO} == "trusty" && ${EBTABLES_RACE_FIX} == "True" ]]; then
-            # Work around for bug #1501558. We can remove this once we
-            # get to a version of Ubuntu that has new enough libvirt.
-            TOP_DIR=$TOP_DIR $TOP_DIR/tools/install_ebtables_workaround.sh
-        fi
         #pip_install_gr <there-si-no-guestfs-in-pypi>
     elif is_fedora || is_suse; then
         # On "KVM for IBM z Systems", kvm does not have its own package
diff --git a/stackrc b/stackrc
index b53f791380..5ace0fbf20 100644
--- a/stackrc
+++ b/stackrc
@@ -845,17 +845,6 @@ USE_SSL=$(trueorfalse False USE_SSL)
 # sharing the same database. It would be useful for multinode Grenade tests.
 RECREATE_KEYSTONE_DB=$(trueorfalse True RECREATE_KEYSTONE_DB)
 
-# ebtables is inherently racey. If you run it by two or more processes
-# simultaneously it will collide, badly, in the kernel and produce
-# failures or corruption of ebtables. The only way around it is for
-# all tools running ebtables to only ever do so with the --concurrent
-# flag. This requires libvirt >= 1.2.11.
-#
-# If you don't have this then the following work around will replace
-# ebtables with a wrapper script so that it is safe to run without
-# that flag.
-EBTABLES_RACE_FIX=$(trueorfalse False EBTABLES_RACE_FIX)
-
 # Following entries need to be last items in file
 
 # Compatibility bits required by other callers like Grenade
diff --git a/tools/install_ebtables_workaround.sh b/tools/install_ebtables_workaround.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 45ced87f13..0000000000
--- a/tools/install_ebtables_workaround.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash -eu
-#
-# Copyright 2015 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-#
-# This replaces the ebtables on your system with a wrapper script that
-# does implicit locking. This is needed if libvirt < 1.2.11 on your platform.
-
-EBTABLES=/sbin/ebtables
-EBTABLESREAL=/sbin/ebtables.real
-FILES=$TOP_DIR/files
-
-if [[ -f "$EBTABLES" ]]; then
-    if file $EBTABLES | grep ELF; then
-        sudo mv $EBTABLES $EBTABLESREAL
-        sudo install -m 0755 $FILES/ebtables.workaround $EBTABLES
-        echo "Replaced ebtables with locking workaround"
-    fi
-fi