diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.unmask b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.unmask
index 5e88db4a1f..097022d351 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.unmask
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/base/package.unmask
@@ -5,6 +5,3 @@
 # remove this when upstream portage-stable package.mask is sync'd.
 =sys-block/open-iscsi-2.0.873
 
-# masked upstream due to testing
-# we've disabled most of the functionality
-=net-fs/samba-4.5.1