diff --git a/route/binary.go b/route/binary.go
index 4c56163..6910520 100644
--- a/route/binary.go
+++ b/route/binary.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 // This file contains duplicates of encoding/binary package.
 //
 // This package is supposed to be used by the net package of standard
-// library. Therefore a package set used in the package must be the
+// library. Therefore the package set used in the package must be the
 // same as net package.
 
 var (
diff --git a/route/syscall.go b/route/syscall.go
index d136325..c211188 100644
--- a/route/syscall.go
+++ b/route/syscall.go
@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@
 	"unsafe"
 )
 
-// TODO: replace with runtime.KeepAlive when available
-//go:noescape
-func keepAlive(p unsafe.Pointer)
-
 var zero uintptr
 
 func sysctl(mib []int32, old *byte, oldlen *uintptr, new *byte, newlen uintptr) error {
@@ -25,7 +21,6 @@
 		p = unsafe.Pointer(&zero)
 	}
 	_, _, errno := syscall.Syscall6(syscall.SYS___SYSCTL, uintptr(p), uintptr(len(mib)), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(old)), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(oldlen)), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(new)), uintptr(newlen))
-	keepAlive(p)
 	if errno != 0 {
 		return error(errno)
 	}
diff --git a/route/syscall.s b/route/syscall.s
deleted file mode 100644
index fa6297f..0000000
--- a/route/syscall.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2016 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
-// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-#include "textflag.h"
-
-TEXT ·keepAlive(SB),NOSPLIT,$0
-	RET