diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/validation/validation.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/validation/validation.go
index cc04b1c935..e54416e8b0 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/validation/validation.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/validation/validation.go
@@ -120,12 +120,6 @@ func ValidateDiscovery(c *kubeadm.NodeConfiguration, fldPath *field.Path) field.
 	allErrs = append(allErrs, ValidateToken(c.TLSBootstrapToken, fldPath)...)
 	allErrs = append(allErrs, ValidateJoinDiscoveryTokenAPIServer(c, fldPath)...)
 
-	if len(c.DiscoveryToken) != 0 {
-		allErrs = append(allErrs, ValidateToken(c.DiscoveryToken, fldPath)...)
-	}
-	if len(c.DiscoveryFile) != 0 {
-		allErrs = append(allErrs, ValidateDiscoveryFile(c.DiscoveryFile, fldPath)...)
-	}
 	return allErrs
 }