diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a0f42133e..7da33331b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 #                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 #
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 #
 # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 # you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -775,8 +775,6 @@ if(CMAKE_USE_OPENSSL)
   check_symbol_exists(RAND_status   "${CURL_INCLUDES}" HAVE_RAND_STATUS)
   check_symbol_exists(RAND_screen   "${CURL_INCLUDES}" HAVE_RAND_SCREEN)
   check_symbol_exists(RAND_egd      "${CURL_INCLUDES}" HAVE_RAND_EGD)
-  check_symbol_exists(CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data "${CURL_INCLUDES}"
-    HAVE_CRYPTO_CLEANUP_ALL_EX_DATA)
   if(HAVE_LIBCRYPTO AND HAVE_LIBSSL)
     set(USE_OPENSSL 1)
   endif(HAVE_LIBCRYPTO AND HAVE_LIBSSL)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1040a07fb..f7f8e0c5f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1639,7 +1639,6 @@ if test "$curl_ssl_msg" = "$init_ssl_msg" && test X"$OPT_SSL" != Xno; then
                     RAND_screen \
                     RAND_egd \
                     ENGINE_cleanup \
-                    CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data \
                     SSL_get_shutdown \
                     SSLv2_client_method )
 
diff --git a/lib/vtls/openssl.c b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
index 44a6bd82b..30a8dabc3 100644
--- a/lib/vtls/openssl.c
+++ b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
@@ -748,11 +748,6 @@ void Curl_ossl_cleanup(void)
   ENGINE_cleanup();
 #endif
 
-#ifdef HAVE_CRYPTO_CLEANUP_ALL_EX_DATA
-  /* Free OpenSSL ex_data table */
-  CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data();
-#endif
-
   /* Free OpenSSL error strings */
   ERR_free_strings();