diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
index ebc622432831..c4ac0ac25a00 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@
 #ifndef CONFIG_BROKEN_GAS_INST
 
 #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
-#define __emit_inst(x)			.inst (x)
+// The space separator is omitted so that __emit_inst(x) can be parsed as
+// either an assembler directive or an assembler macro argument.
+#define __emit_inst(x)			.inst(x)
 #else
 #define __emit_inst(x)			".inst " __stringify((x)) "\n\t"
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c
index 354b11e27c07..033a48f30dbb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -260,18 +260,7 @@ static int __aarch32_alloc_vdso_pages(void)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	ret = aarch32_alloc_kuser_vdso_page();
-	if (ret) {
-		unsigned long c_vvar =
-			(unsigned long)page_to_virt(aarch32_vdso_pages[C_VVAR]);
-		unsigned long c_vdso =
-			(unsigned long)page_to_virt(aarch32_vdso_pages[C_VDSO]);
-
-		free_page(c_vvar);
-		free_page(c_vdso);
-	}
-
-	return ret;
+	return aarch32_alloc_kuser_vdso_page();
 }
 #else
 static int __aarch32_alloc_vdso_pages(void)