Index: ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
===================================================================
--- ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
+++ ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
@@ -135,8 +135,6 @@
   // Update to location counter means update to section size.
   if (InSec)
     expandOutputSection(Val - Dot);
-  else if (Val > Dot)
-    expandMemoryRegions(Val - Dot);
 
   Dot = Val;
 }
Index: test/ELF/linkerscript/memory5.test
===================================================================
--- test/ELF/linkerscript/memory5.test
+++ test/ELF/linkerscript/memory5.test
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 # RUN: llvm-objdump -section-headers %t.so | FileCheck %s
 
 # CHECK:      1 .text         00000001 0000000000042000
-# CHECK-NEXT: 2 .data         00000001 0000000000044001
+# CHECK-NEXT: 2 .data         00000001 0000000000042001
 
-## Test that assign to Dot changes the position in a memory region.
+## Test that assign to Dot does not change the position in a memory region.
 
 MEMORY {
   ram (wxa) : ORIGIN = 0x42000, LENGTH = 0x100000