diff --git a/board/stmicroelectronics/common/stm32f4xx/uclibc-fragment.config b/board/stmicroelectronics/common/stm32f4xx/uclibc-fragment.config
deleted file mode 100644
index fb8fa9ee01c3..000000000000
--- a/board/stmicroelectronics/common/stm32f4xx/uclibc-fragment.config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# MALLOC is not set
-MALLOC_SIMPLE=y
diff --git a/configs/stm32f429_disco_xip_defconfig b/configs/stm32f429_disco_xip_defconfig
index 0c472a328bfd..40577a21a5ee 100644
--- a/configs/stm32f429_disco_xip_defconfig
+++ b/configs/stm32f429_disco_xip_defconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 BR2_arm=y
 BR2_cortex_m4=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_6_1=y
-BR2_UCLIBC_CONFIG_FRAGMENT_FILES="board/stmicroelectronics/common/stm32f4xx/uclibc-fragment.config"
 # BR2_UCLIBC_INSTALL_UTILS is not set
 BR2_ENABLE_LTO=y
 BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="board/stmicroelectronics/stm32f429-disco/patches"