diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix b/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix
index 1b2f22a039cb..6823e12847c2 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix
@@ -87,9 +87,7 @@ let
   # copy what we need.  Instead of using statically linked binaries,
   # we just copy what we need from Glibc and use patchelf to make it
   # work.
-  extraUtils = let
-    # Use lvm2 without udev support, which is the same lvm2 we already have in the closure anyways
-    lvm2 = pkgs.lvm2.override { udev = null; }; in pkgs.runCommandCC "extra-utils"
+  extraUtils = pkgs.runCommandCC "extra-utils"
     { nativeBuildInputs = [pkgs.buildPackages.nukeReferences];
       allowedReferences = [ "out" ]; # prevent accidents like glibc being included in the initrd
     }
@@ -113,8 +111,8 @@ let
       copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.utillinux}/sbin/blkid
 
       # Copy dmsetup and lvm.
-      copy_bin_and_libs ${getBin lvm2}/bin/dmsetup
-      copy_bin_and_libs ${getBin lvm2}/bin/lvm
+      copy_bin_and_libs ${getBin pkgs.lvm2}/bin/dmsetup
+      copy_bin_and_libs ${getBin pkgs.lvm2}/bin/lvm
 
       # Add RAID mdadm tool.
       copy_bin_and_libs ${pkgs.mdadm}/sbin/mdadm
diff --git a/nixos/tests/installer.nix b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
index f64e4101d45b..bd1bf7331531 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/installer.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/installer.nix
@@ -317,7 +317,6 @@ let
             texinfo
             unionfs-fuse
             xorg.lndir
-            (lvm2.override { udev = null; }) # for initrd (extra-utils)
 
             # add curl so that rather than seeing the test attempt to download
             # curl's tarball, we see what it's trying to download
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index dffd32e9bc3a..879fd4bd832b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -17246,11 +17246,7 @@ in
 
   criu = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/criu { };
 
-  cryptsetup = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/cryptsetup {
-    # cryptsetup only really needs the devmapper component of cryptsetup
-    # but itself is used as a library in systemd (=udev)
-    lvm2 = lvm2.override { udev = null; };
-  };
+  cryptsetup = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/cryptsetup { };
 
   cramfsprogs = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/cramfsprogs { };
 
@@ -18032,7 +18028,12 @@ in
 
   lsscsi = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lsscsi { };
 
-  lvm2 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lvm2 { };
+  lvm2 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lvm2 {
+    # udev is the same package as systemd which depends on cryptsetup
+    # which depends on lvm2 again.  But we only need the libudev part
+    # which does not depend on cryptsetup.
+    udev = udev.override { cryptsetup = null; };
+  };
   lvm2_dmeventd = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/lvm2 {
     enableDmeventd = true;
     enableCmdlib = true;