struct dentry *lower_dir_dentry, *lower_dentry;
        int rc = 0;
 
-       if ((ecryptfs_dentry->d_name.len == 1
-            && !strcmp(ecryptfs_dentry->d_name.name, "."))
-           || (ecryptfs_dentry->d_name.len == 2
-               && !strcmp(ecryptfs_dentry->d_name.name, ".."))) {
-               goto out_d_drop;
-       }
        lower_dir_dentry = ecryptfs_dentry_to_lower(ecryptfs_dentry->d_parent);
        mutex_lock(&lower_dir_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
        lower_dentry = lookup_one_len(ecryptfs_dentry->d_name.name,
                rc = PTR_ERR(lower_dentry);
                ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "%s: lookup_one_len() returned "
                                "[%d] on lower_dentry = [%s]\n", __func__, rc,
-                               encrypted_and_encoded_name);
-               goto out_d_drop;
+                               ecryptfs_dentry->d_name.name);
+               goto out;
        }
        if (lower_dentry->d_inode)
                goto interpose;
        if (rc) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Error attempting to encrypt and encode "
                       "filename; rc = [%d]\n", __func__, rc);
-               goto out_d_drop;
+               goto out;
        }
        mutex_lock(&lower_dir_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
        lower_dentry = lookup_one_len(encrypted_and_encoded_name,
                ecryptfs_printk(KERN_DEBUG, "%s: lookup_one_len() returned "
                                "[%d] on lower_dentry = [%s]\n", __func__, rc,
                                encrypted_and_encoded_name);
-               goto out_d_drop;
+               goto out;
        }
 interpose:
        rc = ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(ecryptfs_dentry, lower_dentry,
                                       ecryptfs_dir_inode);
-       goto out;
-out_d_drop:
-       d_drop(ecryptfs_dentry);
 out:
        kfree(encrypted_and_encoded_name);
        return ERR_PTR(rc);