diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h
index 5ce29fe100ba..fbd9116eb17b 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -4,6 +4,5 @@
 #include <asm-generic/sections.h>
 
 extern char _eshared[], _ehead[];
-extern char __start_ro_after_init[], __end_ro_after_init[];
 
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 5ccf95396251..72307f108c40 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -63,11 +63,9 @@ SECTIONS
 
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__start_ro_after_init = .;
-	__start_data_ro_after_init = .;
 	.data..ro_after_init : {
 		 *(.data..ro_after_init)
 	}
-	__end_data_ro_after_init = .;
 	EXCEPTION_TABLE(16)
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
 	__end_ro_after_init = .;
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
index 4df64a1fc09e..532372c6cf15 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
  * [_sdata, _edata]: contains .data.* sections, may also contain .rodata.*
  *                   and/or .init.* sections.
  * [__start_rodata, __end_rodata]: contains .rodata.* sections
- * [__start_data_ro_after_init, __end_data_ro_after_init]:
- *		     contains data.ro_after_init section
+ * [__start_ro_after_init, __end_ro_after_init]:
+ *		     contains .data..ro_after_init section
  * [__init_begin, __init_end]: contains .init.* sections, but .init.text.*
  *                   may be out of this range on some architectures.
  * [_sinittext, _einittext]: contains .init.text.* sections
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ extern char _data[], _sdata[], _edata[];
 extern char __bss_start[], __bss_stop[];
 extern char __init_begin[], __init_end[];
 extern char _sinittext[], _einittext[];
-extern char __start_data_ro_after_init[], __end_data_ro_after_init[];
+extern char __start_ro_after_init[], __end_ro_after_init[];
 extern char _end[];
 extern char __per_cpu_load[], __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];
 extern char __kprobes_text_start[], __kprobes_text_end[];
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 0968d13b3885..f9f21e2c59f3 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -260,9 +260,9 @@
  */
 #ifndef RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA
 #define RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA						\
-	__start_data_ro_after_init = .;					\
+	__start_ro_after_init = .;					\
 	*(.data..ro_after_init)						\
-	__end_data_ro_after_init = .;
+	__end_ro_after_init = .;
 #endif
 
 /*
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 26c874e90b12..20036d4f9f13 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
 	/* data/bss scanning */
 	scan_large_block(_sdata, _edata);
 	scan_large_block(__bss_start, __bss_stop);
-	scan_large_block(__start_data_ro_after_init, __end_data_ro_after_init);
+	scan_large_block(__start_ro_after_init, __end_ro_after_init);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	/* per-cpu sections scanning */