diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
index 36f9a1e47b4c..5613d9a60742 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/init.c
@@ -231,25 +231,8 @@ static void __init setup_bootmem(void)
 	 * early_init_fdt_reserve_self() since __pa() does
 	 * not work for DTB pointers that are fixmap addresses
 	 */
-	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB)) {
-		/*
-		 * In case the DTB is not located in a memory region we won't
-		 * be able to locate it later on via the linear mapping and
-		 * get a segfault when accessing it via __va(dtb_early_pa).
-		 * To avoid this situation copy DTB to a memory region.
-		 * Note that memblock_phys_alloc will also reserve DTB region.
-		 */
-		if (!memblock_is_memory(dtb_early_pa)) {
-			size_t fdt_size = fdt_totalsize(dtb_early_va);
-			phys_addr_t new_dtb_early_pa = memblock_phys_alloc(fdt_size, PAGE_SIZE);
-			void *new_dtb_early_va = early_memremap(new_dtb_early_pa, fdt_size);
-
-			memcpy(new_dtb_early_va, dtb_early_va, fdt_size);
-			early_memunmap(new_dtb_early_va, fdt_size);
-			_dtb_early_pa = new_dtb_early_pa;
-		} else
-			memblock_reserve(dtb_early_pa, fdt_totalsize(dtb_early_va));
-	}
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB))
+		memblock_reserve(dtb_early_pa, fdt_totalsize(dtb_early_va));
 
 	dma_contiguous_reserve(dma32_phys_limit);
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT))