diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/Manifest b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/Manifest
index c21d21b35a..aeaf2d0daa 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/Manifest
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/Manifest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-DIST wa-linux-agent-2.1.3.tar.gz 156793 SHA256 8321fa7c8a1463817ebff23feed7a7005997671d14141780fe74331cfce75d2d SHA512 31ce930a181726dcdfc097642c1487f0dbace06278aae588b64c590b362cc9e0285b6a0ab40c9ae9f1cee6a89d6f451087d13e446b5b42cd3353e00f968cfcf8 WHIRLPOOL d50afef20b38911c9afe9967c4ae65a09dcb2bbc327cce19a383ab9fd5729730e20a8449b6485a202eb28095c68b8de8c968b554ea5db2868799f656b545db22
+DIST wa-linux-agent-2.2.4.tar.gz 621451 SHA256 ff6c25df41a5e159488182272670b3678bdd1611228c866766ea31b05a8a8195 SHA512 637fc40c5e40e311a528ec29761744f12250345a090509dbfcdd523072410881b8969da69c3eee2a2208bd139309babb039651d25b3de5a280427c1aedbf8546 WHIRLPOOL 71e13040172e9b62e5f3f6157427fa81263a2b23e49c8c851efe8e58bb9ac07f27fa08b91926c356323fee92d1eacaf387c6aefd07d4c22a1d89a24577d4f86d
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/files/0001-fix-sudo-asking-for-password.patch b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/files/0001-fix-sudo-asking-for-password.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f6a6ed5adf..0000000000
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/files/0001-fix-sudo-asking-for-password.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-From 0dc86a2df78b6c80de0533fcfac14a49716f5435 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Eric Williams <eric@subcritical.org>
-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 10:28:05 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix sudo asking for password
-
----
- azurelinuxagent/distro/default/osutil.py | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/azurelinuxagent/distro/default/osutil.py b/azurelinuxagent/distro/default/osutil.py
-index 18ab2ba..1685f31 100644
---- a/azurelinuxagent/distro/default/osutil.py
-+++ b/azurelinuxagent/distro/default/osutil.py
-@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ def conf_sudoer(self, username, nopasswd):
-             fileutil.append_file('/etc/sudoers', sudoers)
-         sudoer = None
-         if nopasswd:
--            sudoer = "{0} ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD\n".format(username)
-+            sudoer = "{0} ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL\n".format(username)
-         else:
-             sudoer = "{0} ALL = (ALL) ALL\n".format(username)
-         fileutil.append_file('/etc/sudoers.d/waagent', sudoer)
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/wa-linux-agent-2.1.3-r2.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/wa-linux-agent-2.2.4.ebuild
similarity index 90%
rename from sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/wa-linux-agent-2.1.3-r2.ebuild
rename to sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/wa-linux-agent-2.2.4.ebuild
index 8aa6a1f028..aa5ef02a44 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/wa-linux-agent-2.1.3-r2.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/app-emulation/wa-linux-agent/wa-linux-agent-2.2.4.ebuild
@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ IUSE=""
 
 RDEPEND="dev-lang/python-oem"
 
-PATCHES=(
-	"${FILESDIR}/0001-fix-sudo-asking-for-password.patch"
-)
-
 S="${WORKDIR}/WALinuxAgent-${PV}"
 
 src_install() {