diff --git a/llvm/lib/MC/MCParser/WasmAsmParser.cpp b/llvm/lib/MC/MCParser/WasmAsmParser.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/MC/MCParser/WasmAsmParser.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/MC/MCParser/WasmAsmParser.cpp
@@ -151,10 +151,7 @@
                     // TargetLoweringObjectFileWasm
                     .StartsWith(".init_array", SectionKind::getData())
                     .StartsWith(".debug_", SectionKind::getMetadata())
-                    .Default(Optional<SectionKind>());
-    if (!Kind.hasValue())
-      return Parser->Error(Lexer->getLoc(), "unknown section kind: " + Name);
-
+                    .Default(SectionKind::getData());
 
     // Update section flags if present in this .section directive
     bool Passive = false;
diff --git a/llvm/test/MC/WebAssembly/data-section-combined.s b/llvm/test/MC/WebAssembly/data-section-combined.s
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/MC/WebAssembly/data-section-combined.s
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Test that placing multiple data symbols in the same section works
+
+# RUN: llvm-mc -triple=wasm32-unknown-unknown < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+test0:
+    .functype   test0 () -> (i32)
+    i32.const a
+    i32.const b
+    end_function
+
+    .section mysec,"",@
+a:
+    .int32 42
+    .int32 43
+    .size a, 8
+b:
+    .int32 44
+    .size b, 4
+
+#      CHECK:   .section  mysec,"",@
+# CHECK-NEXT: a:
+# CHECK-NEXT:   .int32 42
+# CHECK-NEXT:   .int32 43
+# CHECK-NEXT:   .size a, 8
+# CHECK-NEXT: b:
+# CHECK-NEXT:   .int32 44
+# CHECK-NEXT:   .size b, 4
+
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=wasm32-unknown-unknown < %s | llvm-objdump --triple=wasm32-unknown-unknown -d -t -r - | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=OBJ
+
+
+#      OBJ: 00000001 <test0>:
+#      OBJ:        3: 41 80 80 80 80 00     i32.const       0
+# OBJ-NEXT:                         00000004:  R_WASM_MEMORY_ADDR_SLEB      a+0
+# OBJ-NEXT:        9: 41 88 80 80 80 00     i32.const       8
+# OBJ-NEXT:                         0000000a:  R_WASM_MEMORY_ADDR_SLEB      b+0
+# OBJ-NEXT:        f: 0b            end