diff --git a/cinder/hacking/checks.py b/cinder/hacking/checks.py
index 5ce994e11a5..f794f83976b 100644
--- a/cinder/hacking/checks.py
+++ b/cinder/hacking/checks.py
@@ -443,15 +443,6 @@ def check_no_log_audit(logical_line):
         yield(0, "C304: Found LOG.audit.  Use LOG.info instead.")
 
 
-def check_no_contextlib_nested(logical_line):
-    msg = ("C305: contextlib.nested is deprecated. With Python 2.7 and later "
-           "the with-statement supports multiple nested objects. See https://"
-           "docs.python.org/2/library/contextlib.html#contextlib.nested "
-           "for more information.")
-    if no_contextlib_nested.match(logical_line):
-        yield(0, msg)
-
-
 def check_timeutils_strtime(logical_line):
     msg = ("C306: Found timeutils.strtime(). "
            "Please use datetime.datetime.isoformat() or datetime.strftime()")
@@ -517,7 +508,6 @@ def factory(register):
     register(check_unicode_usage)
     register(check_no_print_statements)
     register(check_no_log_audit)
-    register(check_no_contextlib_nested)
     register(no_log_warn)
     register(dict_constructor_with_list_copy)
     register(no_test_log)
diff --git a/cinder/tests/unit/test_hacking.py b/cinder/tests/unit/test_hacking.py
index 9648cc28475..a118ea5b62d 100644
--- a/cinder/tests/unit/test_hacking.py
+++ b/cinder/tests/unit/test_hacking.py
@@ -320,16 +320,6 @@ class HackingTestCase(test.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(0, len(list(checks.check_oslo_namespace_imports(
             "from oslo_log import bar"))))
 
-    def test_no_contextlib_nested(self):
-        self.assertEqual(1, len(list(checks.check_no_contextlib_nested(
-            "with contextlib.nested("))))
-        self.assertEqual(1, len(list(checks.check_no_contextlib_nested(
-            "  with nested("))))
-        self.assertEqual(0, len(list(checks.check_no_contextlib_nested(
-            "with my.nested("))))
-        self.assertEqual(0, len(list(checks.check_no_contextlib_nested(
-            "with foo as bar"))))
-
     def test_check_datetime_now(self):
         self.assertEqual(1, len(list(checks.check_datetime_now(
             "datetime.now", False))))