diff --git a/random/rndgetentropy.c b/random/rndgetentropy.c
index 513da0b..d8eedce 100644
--- a/random/rndgetentropy.c
+++ b/random/rndgetentropy.c
@@ -81,27 +81,8 @@ _gcry_rndgetentropy_gather_random (void (*add)(const void*, size_t,
       do
         {
           _gcry_pre_syscall ();
-          if (fips_mode ())
-            {
-              /* DRBG chaining defined in SP 800-90A (rev 1) specify
-               * the upstream (kernel) DRBG needs to be reseeded for
-               * initialization of downstream (libgcrypt) DRBG. For this
-               * in RHEL, we repurposed the GRND_RANDOM flag of getrandom API.
-               * The libgcrypt DRBG is initialized with 48B of entropy, but
-               * the kernel can provide only 32B at a time after reseeding
-               * so we need to limit our requests to 32B here.
-               * This is clarified in IG 7.19 / IG D.K. for FIPS 140-2 / 3
-               * and might not be applicable on other FIPS modules not running
-               * RHEL kernel.
-               */
-              nbytes = length < 32 ? length : 32;
-              ret = getrandom (buffer, nbytes, GRND_RANDOM);
-            }
-          else
-            {
-              nbytes = length < sizeof (buffer) ? length : sizeof (buffer);
-              ret = getentropy (buffer, nbytes);
-            }
+          nbytes = length < sizeof (buffer) ? length : sizeof (buffer);
+          ret = getentropy (buffer, nbytes);
           _gcry_post_syscall ();
         }
       while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);