diff --git a/kpatch-build/create-diff-object.c b/kpatch-build/create-diff-object.c
index 2d46264..71942bf 100644
--- a/kpatch-build/create-diff-object.c
+++ b/kpatch-build/create-diff-object.c
@@ -1141,20 +1141,8 @@ void kpatch_correlate_static_local_variables(struct kpatch_elf *base,
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (!sec) {
-			/*
-			 * CSWTCH is a read-only static local array used by gcc
-			 * for some switch statements.  If two functions use
-			 * the same CSWTCH data, there can be two separate
-			 * CSWTCH symbols referring to the same bundled
-			 * .rodata.CSWTCH.xxxx section and one of them will be
-			 * unused.
-			 */
-			if (!strncmp(sym->name, "CSWTCH.", 7))
-				continue;
-
+		if (!sec)
 			ERROR("static local variable %s not used", sym->name);
-		}
 
 		if (!basesym) {
 			log_normal("WARNING: unable to correlate static local variable %s used by %s, assuming variable is new\n",