diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config-cgroupfs.toml b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config-cgroupfs.toml
index 742fbf4355c..1615541b37d 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config-cgroupfs.toml
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config-cgroupfs.toml
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ version = 2
 root = "/var/lib/containerd"
 # runtime state information
 state = "/run/containerd"
-# set containerd as a subreaper on linux when it is not running as PID 1
-subreaper = true
 # set containerd's OOM score
 oom_score = -999
 disabled_plugins = []
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config.toml b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config.toml
index babc77b0e06..16ea4abb115 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config.toml
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/sysext/containerd/usr/share/containerd/config.toml
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ version = 2
 root = "/var/lib/containerd"
 # runtime state information
 state = "/run/containerd"
-# set containerd as a subreaper on linux when it is not running as PID 1
-subreaper = true
 # set containerd's OOM score
 oom_score = -999
 disabled_plugins = []