diff --git a/clang/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp b/clang/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp
index 6e7060fedd07..4a125f5a9da9 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp
@@ -2267,10 +2267,6 @@ collectSanitizerRuntimes(const ToolChain &TC, const ArgList &Args,
 // C runtime, etc). Returns true if sanitizer system deps need to be linked in.
 static bool addSanitizerRuntimes(const ToolChain &TC, const ArgList &Args,
                                  ArgStringList &CmdArgs) {
-  // Don't link in any sanitizer runtimes if we have no system libraries.
-  if (Args.hasArg(options::OPT_nostdlib) ||
-      Args.hasArg(options::OPT_nodefaultlibs))
-    return false;
   SmallVector<StringRef, 4> SharedRuntimes, StaticRuntimes,
       HelperStaticRuntimes;
   collectSanitizerRuntimes(TC, Args, SharedRuntimes, StaticRuntimes,
diff --git a/clang/test/Driver/sanitizer-ld.c b/clang/test/Driver/sanitizer-ld.c
index a7ef4c744d49..dc8e93e50f26 100644
--- a/clang/test/Driver/sanitizer-ld.c
+++ b/clang/test/Driver/sanitizer-ld.c
@@ -301,10 +301,3 @@
 // CHECK-LSAN-ASAN-LINUX-NOT: libclang_rt.lsan
 // CHECK-LSAN-ASAN-LINUX: libclang_rt.asan-x86_64
 // CHECK-LSAN-ASAN-LINUX-NOT: libclang_rt.lsan
-
-// RUN: %clang -nostdlib -fsanitize=address %s -### -o %t.o 2>&1 \
-// RUN:     -target x86_64-unknown-linux \
-// RUN:     --sysroot=%S/Inputs/basic_linux_tree \
-// RUN:   | FileCheck --check-prefix=CHECK-NOSTDLIB %s
-// CHECK-NOSTDLIB: "{{.*}}ld{{(.exe)?}}"
-// CHECK-NOSTDLIB-NOT: libclang_rt.asan