diff --git a/test/TEST-22-TMPFILES/test.sh b/test/TEST-22-TMPFILES/test.sh
index 317e4a88f7..e4874b4d23 100755
--- a/test/TEST-22-TMPFILES/test.sh
+++ b/test/TEST-22-TMPFILES/test.sh
@@ -4,4 +4,15 @@ TEST_DESCRIPTION="Tmpfiles related tests"
 TEST_NO_QEMU=1
 . $TEST_BASE_DIR/test-functions
 
+test_append_files() {
+    if [[ "$IS_BUILT_WITH_ASAN" == "yes" ]]; then
+        if [[ -z "$initdir" ]]; then
+            echo >&2 "\$initdir is not defined, can't continue"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+
+        sed -i "s/systemd//g" "$initdir/etc/nsswitch.conf"
+    fi
+}
+
 do_test "$@" 22