1 files changed, 3 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/src/mongo/bson/bsonelement.h b/src/mongo/bson/bsonelement.h
index d7733b7966a..892be6df831 100644
--- a/src/mongo/bson/bsonelement.h
+++ b/src/mongo/bson/bsonelement.h
@@ -494,18 +494,9 @@ public:
         if (binDataType() != ByteArrayDeprecated) {
             return binData(len);
         } else {
-            // Because, for some time, the shell has incorrectly created type 2 binary objects
-            // without the extra length, we try to identify if this object does or doesn't start
-            // with a length and skip past it when its present. See SERVER-41994
-            if (valuestrsize() >= 4 &&
-                ConstDataView(value() + 5).read<LittleEndian<int>>() == valuestrsize() - 4) {
-                // Skip extra size
-                len = valuestrsize() - 4;
-                return value() + 5 + 4;
-            } else {
-                len = valuestrsize();
-                return value() + 5;
-            }
+            // Skip extra size
+            len = valuestrsize() - 4;
+            return value() + 5 + 4;
         }
     }