diff --git a/base/util-linux/util-linux.conf b/base/util-linux/util-linux.conf
index fe9b6c359..0d7d4c082 100644
--- a/base/util-linux/util-linux.conf
+++ b/base/util-linux/util-linux.conf
@@ -20,11 +20,5 @@ fi
 # HACK: avoid spontaneous aclocal call
 hook_add premake 5 'touch aclocal.m4'
 
-if atstage cross; then
-	# cannot run test program while cross compiling
-	var_append configcache ' ' "scanf_cv_type_modifier=ms"
-	var_append configcache ' ' "scanf_cv_alloc_modifier=no"
-fi
-
 # 'for' loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
 var_append GCC_WRAPPER_APPEND ' ' '-std=c99'
diff --git a/base/util-linux/util-linux.desc b/base/util-linux/util-linux.desc
index 98d5fd779..fb0778f8b 100644
--- a/base/util-linux/util-linux.desc
+++ b/base/util-linux/util-linux.desc
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.21.2
+[V] 2.22.1
 [P] X -1-3-----9 179.200
 
-[D] 2468877213 util-linux-2.21.2.tar.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/
+[D] 3806115155 util-linux-2.22.1.tar.bz2 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/