diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h
index 40971ac1303f..51b0d594239e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ extern char __alt_instructions[], __alt_instructions_end[];
 extern char __hibernate_exit_text_start[], __hibernate_exit_text_end[];
 extern char __hyp_idmap_text_start[], __hyp_idmap_text_end[];
 extern char __hyp_text_start[], __hyp_text_end[];
+extern char __hyp_data_start[], __hyp_data_end[];
 extern char __hyp_rodata_start[], __hyp_rodata_end[];
 extern char __hyp_reloc_begin[], __hyp_reloc_end[];
 extern char __hyp_bss_start[], __hyp_bss_end[];
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/image-vars.h b/arch/arm64/kernel/image-vars.h
index ef3a69cc398e..7c675e61ae58 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/image-vars.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/image-vars.h
@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ KVM_NVHE_ALIAS(__hyp_text_start);
 KVM_NVHE_ALIAS(__hyp_text_end);
 KVM_NVHE_ALIAS(__hyp_bss_start);
 KVM_NVHE_ALIAS(__hyp_bss_end);
+KVM_NVHE_ALIAS(__hyp_data_start);
+KVM_NVHE_ALIAS(__hyp_data_end);
 KVM_NVHE_ALIAS(__hyp_rodata_start);
 KVM_NVHE_ALIAS(__hyp_rodata_end);
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index e73326bd3ff7..7c770053f072 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 	*(__kvm_ex_table)					\
 	__stop___kvm_ex_table = .;
 
-#define HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTIONS				\
+#define HYPERVISOR_RODATA_SECTIONS				\
 	HYP_SECTION_NAME(.rodata) : {				\
 		. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);				\
 		__hyp_rodata_start = .;				\
@@ -23,6 +23,15 @@
 		__hyp_rodata_end = .;				\
 	}
 
+#define HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTION					\
+	HYP_SECTION_NAME(.data) : {				\
+		. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);				\
+		__hyp_data_start = .;				\
+		*(HYP_SECTION_NAME(.data))			\
+		. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);				\
+		__hyp_data_end = .;				\
+	}
+
 #define HYPERVISOR_PERCPU_SECTION				\
 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);					\
 	HYP_SECTION_NAME(.data..percpu) : {			\
@@ -51,7 +60,8 @@
 #define SBSS_ALIGN			PAGE_SIZE
 #else /* CONFIG_KVM */
 #define HYPERVISOR_EXTABLE
-#define HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTIONS
+#define HYPERVISOR_RODATA_SECTIONS
+#define HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTION
 #define HYPERVISOR_PERCPU_SECTION
 #define HYPERVISOR_RELOC_SECTION
 #define SBSS_ALIGN			0
@@ -190,7 +200,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	/* everything from this point to __init_begin will be marked RO NX */
 	RO_DATA(PAGE_SIZE)
 
-	HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTIONS
+	HYPERVISOR_RODATA_SECTIONS
 
 	.got : { *(.got) }
 	/*
@@ -295,6 +305,8 @@ SECTIONS
 	_sdata = .;
 	RW_DATA(L1_CACHE_BYTES, PAGE_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN)
 
+	HYPERVISOR_DATA_SECTION
+
 	/*
 	 * Data written with the MMU off but read with the MMU on requires
 	 * cache lines to be invalidated, discarding up to a Cache Writeback
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index b8e55a441282..94d23b901b66 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -2568,6 +2568,13 @@ static int __init init_hyp_mode(void)
 		goto out_err;
 	}
 
+	err = create_hyp_mappings(kvm_ksym_ref(__hyp_data_start),
+				  kvm_ksym_ref(__hyp_data_end), PAGE_HYP);
+	if (err) {
+		kvm_err("Cannot map .hyp.data section\n");
+		goto out_err;
+	}
+
 	err = create_hyp_mappings(kvm_ksym_ref(__hyp_rodata_start),
 				  kvm_ksym_ref(__hyp_rodata_end), PAGE_HYP_RO);
 	if (err) {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp.lds.S
index f4562f417d3f..d724f6d69302 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp.lds.S
@@ -25,5 +25,7 @@ SECTIONS {
 	BEGIN_HYP_SECTION(.data..percpu)
 		PERCPU_INPUT(L1_CACHE_BYTES)
 	END_HYP_SECTION
+
 	HYP_SECTION(.bss)
+	HYP_SECTION(.data)
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c
index d62bcb5634a2..46d9bd04348f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c
@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ static int recreate_hyp_mappings(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long size,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	ret = pkvm_create_mappings(__hyp_data_start, __hyp_data_end, PAGE_HYP);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	ret = pkvm_create_mappings(__hyp_rodata_start, __hyp_rodata_end, PAGE_HYP_RO);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
index 930b677eb9b0..5a75f9554e57 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static int __init finalize_pkvm(void)
 	 * at, which would end badly once inaccessible.
 	 */
 	kmemleak_free_part(__hyp_bss_start, __hyp_bss_end - __hyp_bss_start);
+	kmemleak_free_part(__hyp_data_start, __hyp_data_end - __hyp_data_start);
 	kmemleak_free_part(__hyp_rodata_start, __hyp_rodata_end - __hyp_rodata_start);
 	kmemleak_free_part_phys(hyp_mem_base, hyp_mem_size);
 
