diff --git a/libclamav/htmlnorm.c b/libclamav/htmlnorm.c
index cf22c9d025..9eaf5259e4 100644
--- a/libclamav/htmlnorm.c
+++ b/libclamav/htmlnorm.c
@@ -52,8 +52,6 @@
 #include "clamav_rust.h"
 #include "scanners.h"
 
-extern bool fail_realloc;
-
 #define HTML_STR_LENGTH 1024
 #define MAX_TAG_CONTENTS_LENGTH HTML_STR_LENGTH
 
@@ -377,14 +375,6 @@ void html_tag_arg_add(tag_arguments_t *tags,
     int contentCnt = 0;
     unsigned char ** tmp = NULL;
 
-    static int cnt = 0;
-    cnt++;
-
-#if 0
-    if (cnt > 2) {
-        fail_realloc = true;
-    }
-#endif
     tmp = (unsigned char **) cli_max_realloc(tags->tag, (tagCnt+1) * sizeof(char *));
     if (!tmp) {
         goto done;
@@ -392,11 +382,6 @@ void html_tag_arg_add(tag_arguments_t *tags,
     tags->tag = tmp;
     tagCnt++;
 
-#if 0
-    if (cnt > 2) {
-        fail_realloc = true;
-    }
-#endif
     tmp = (unsigned char **)cli_max_realloc(tags->value, (valueCnt+1) * sizeof(char *));
     if (!tmp) {
         goto done;
@@ -406,11 +391,6 @@ void html_tag_arg_add(tag_arguments_t *tags,
 
     if (tags->scanContents) {
         contentCnt = tags->count;
-#if 0
-    if (cnt > 2) {
-        fail_realloc = true;
-    }
-#endif
         tmp = (unsigned char **)cli_max_realloc(tags->contents, (contentCnt+1) * sizeof(*tags->contents));
         if (!tmp) {
             goto done;
@@ -423,9 +403,6 @@ void html_tag_arg_add(tag_arguments_t *tags,
     tags->tag[tags->count] = (unsigned char *)cli_safer_strdup(tag);
     if (value) {
         if (*value == '"') {
-    if (cnt > 2) {
-        fail_realloc = true;
-    }
             tags->value[tags->count] = (unsigned char *)cli_safer_strdup(value + 1);
             if (NULL == tags->value[tags->count]) {
                 goto done;
@@ -700,22 +677,12 @@ bool html_insert_form_data(const char * const value, form_data_t *tags) {
      * Do NOT use cli_max_realloc_or_free because all the previously malloc'd tag
      * values will be leaked when tag is free'd in the case where realloc fails.
      */
-    static int runCnt = 1;
-    runCnt++;
-#if 0
-    if (runCnt > 3) {
-        fail_realloc = true;
-    }
-#endif
     tmp = cli_max_realloc(tags->urls, cnt * sizeof(unsigned char *));
     if (!tmp) {
         goto done;
     }
     tags->urls = tmp;
 
-    if (runCnt > 2) {
-        fail_realloc = true;
-    }
     tags->urls[tags->count] = cli_safer_strdup(value);
     if (tags->urls[tags->count]) {
         tags->count = cnt;
diff --git a/libclamav/others_common.c b/libclamav/others_common.c
index 2ed958d596..60d0179d2d 100644
--- a/libclamav/others_common.c
+++ b/libclamav/others_common.c
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@
 #include "entconv.h"
 #include "clamav_rust.h"
 
-bool fail_realloc = false;
-
 #define MSGBUFSIZ 8192
 
 static bool rand_seeded            = false;
@@ -316,12 +314,7 @@ void *cli_max_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    if (fail_realloc){
-        alloc = NULL;
-    } else {
     alloc = realloc(ptr, size);
-    }
-    fail_realloc = false;
 
     if (!alloc) {
         perror("realloc_problem");
@@ -344,21 +337,6 @@ void *cli_max_realloc_or_free(void *ptr, size_t size)
 
     alloc = realloc(ptr, size);
 
-#if 0
-    if (fail_realloc) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "%s::%d::Forcing realloc to actually fail\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);
-        fprintf(stderr, "%s::%d::ptr   = %p\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, ptr);
-        fprintf(stderr, "%s::%d::alloc = %p\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, alloc);
-        free(alloc);
-        if (alloc != ptr){
-            ptr = NULL;
-        }
-        alloc = NULL;
-    }
-    fail_realloc = false;
-
-#endif
-
     if (!alloc) {
         perror("realloc_problem");
         cli_errmsg("cli_max_realloc_or_free(): Can't re-allocate memory to %zu bytes.\n", size);
@@ -383,11 +361,6 @@ char *cli_safer_strdup(const char *s)
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    if (fail_realloc){
-        fail_realloc = false;
-        return NULL;
-    }
-
     alloc = strdup(s);
 
     if (!alloc) {