diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a8f9a79b2..f6d31246d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ Security
      ARMmbed/mbed-crypto#352
 
 Bugfix
-   * Allow loading symlinked certificates. Fixes #3005. Reported and fixed
-     by Jonathan Bennett <JBennett@incomsystems.biz> via #3008.
    * Fix an unchecked call to mbedtls_md() in the x509write module.
 
 = mbed TLS 2.16.4 branch released 2020-01-15
diff --git a/library/x509_crt.c b/library/x509_crt.c
index a4202be37..9c2e36547 100644
--- a/library/x509_crt.c
+++ b/library/x509_crt.c
@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ cleanup:
             goto cleanup;
         }
 
-        if( !( S_ISREG( sb.st_mode ) || S_ISLNK( sb.st_mode ) ) )
+        if( !S_ISREG( sb.st_mode ) )
             continue;
 
         // Ignore parse errors