diff --git a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
index fd1085ce18f849966601230ba1afb2e0ff19ecec..0f393f3f40b096851766a286f2febae7fa5803a3 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 c5f562b7be2353cf56c9c89b966d5e4d0531ac31..3209f46e04c30e081bc0f0e70162b9c4a759556c 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