diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index c71a6c092ad9d4f372553dac847c1af91355d048..677f3ed7f987f182e0620b93e52e70976fef305a 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -141,9 +141,6 @@ static int fuse_dentry_revalidate(struct dentry *entry, struct nameidata *nd)
 		struct fuse_req *forget_req;
 		struct dentry *parent;
 
-		/* Doesn't hurt to "reset" the validity timeout */
-		fuse_invalidate_entry_cache(entry);
-
 		/* For negative dentries, always do a fresh lookup */
 		if (!inode)
 			return 0;