diff --git a/builder/default.nix b/builder/default.nix
index 9fe4eb2..75f0043 100644
--- a/builder/default.nix
+++ b/builder/default.nix
@@ -4,14 +4,9 @@
 , lib
 , fetchgit
 , removeReferencesTo
-, pkgs
+, go
 }:
 let
-  # Patch go to lift restrictions on
-  # This patch should be upstreamed in Nixpkgs & in Go proper
-  go = pkgs.go.overrideAttrs (old: {
-    patches = old.patches ++ [ ./go_no_vendor_checks.patch ];
-  });
 
   removeExpr = refs: ''remove-references-to ${lib.concatMapStrings (ref: " -t ${ref}") refs}'';
 
diff --git a/builder/go_no_vendor_checks.patch b/builder/go_no_vendor_checks.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 45ff436..0000000
--- a/builder/go_no_vendor_checks.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-Starting from go1.14, go verifes that vendor/modules.txt matches the requirements
-and replacements listed in the main module go.mod file, and it is a hard failure if
-vendor/modules.txt is missing.
-
-Relax module consistency checks and switch back to pre go1.14 behaviour if
-vendor/modules.txt is missing regardless of go version requirement in go.mod.
-
-This has been ported from FreeBSD: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24122
-See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37948 for discussion.
-
-diff --git a/src/cmd/go/internal/modload/vendor.go b/src/cmd/go/internal/modload/vendor.go
-index 71f68efbcc..3c566d04dd 100644
---- a/src/cmd/go/internal/modload/vendor.go
-+++ b/src/cmd/go/internal/modload/vendor.go
-@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ func checkVendorConsistency() {
- 	readVendorList()
-
- 	pre114 := false
--	if modFile.Go == nil || semver.Compare("v"+modFile.Go.Version, "v1.14") < 0 {
-+	if modFile.Go == nil || semver.Compare("v"+modFile.Go.Version, "v1.14") < 0 || (os.Getenv("GO_NO_VENDOR_CHECKS") == "1" && len(vendorMeta) == 0) {
- 		// Go versions before 1.14 did not include enough information in
- 		// vendor/modules.txt to check for consistency.
- 		// If we know that we're on an earlier version, relax the consistency check.