diff --git a/core/java/android/app/ContextImpl.java b/core/java/android/app/ContextImpl.java
index 7f7288b89c861..656942d315ccd 100644
--- a/core/java/android/app/ContextImpl.java
+++ b/core/java/android/app/ContextImpl.java
@@ -3273,13 +3273,6 @@ class ContextImpl extends Context {
                     dir = null;
                 }
             }
-            if (!dir.canWrite()) {
-                // Older versions of the MediaProvider mainline module had a rare early boot race
-                // condition where app-private dirs could be created with the wrong permissions;
-                // fix this up here. This check should be very fast, because dir.exists() above
-                // will already have loaded the dentry in the cache.
-                sm.fixupAppDir(dir);
-            }
             result[i] = dir;
         }
         return result;