diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/lttng-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/lttng-tools/default.nix
index 827c1d0e67f8..733399ebf7d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/lttng-tools/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/lttng-tools/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, popt, libuuid, liburcu, lttng-ust, kmod, libxml2 }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, popt, libuuid, liburcu, lttng-ust, kmod, libxml2 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "lttng-tools-2.5.2";
+  name = "lttng-tools-${version}";
+  version = "2.9.3";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://lttng.org/files/lttng-tools/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0g931f90pl9bfgsxihrj0zlw9ivyaplbiw28axkscmjvzd1d6lhz";
+    sha256 = "0kmj0ya5625mn2khbnghhsdmjr66xs0mhrvbrsdvrp3pm6mbmrm6";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ popt libuuid liburcu lttng-ust libxml2 ];
-
-  prePatch = ''
-    sed -e "s|/sbin/modprobe|${kmod}/bin/modprobe|g" \
-        -i src/bin/lttng-sessiond/modprobe.c
-  '';
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ popt libuuid liburcu lttng-ust libxml2 kmod ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Tracing tools (kernel + user space) for Linux";