diff --git a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
index 354e04343db6b64ccbf9397812fe2fedb9183862..db3609b862baf3323d30ede37d8170dca3d3faff 100644
--- a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ clang_format:
   when: always
   tags:
     - docker
-  allow_failure: yes
 
 ##########################################################
 ## Simple check for basic Python syntax errors; this is much less thorough than
diff --git a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
index 3fd1545d02f1b661127bae43eb2f41b51d1b0aaf..afee704468c131b3e08dcb5a0792d35517354de9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ clang_format:
   when: always
   tags:
     - docker
-  allow_failure: yes
 
 ##########################################################
 ## Simple check for basic Python syntax errors; this is much less thorough than