diff --git a/scripts/qapi/pylintrc b/scripts/qapi/pylintrc
index b9e077a164..fb0386d529 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/pylintrc
+++ b/scripts/qapi/pylintrc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # Add files or directories matching the regex patterns to the ignore list.
 # The regex matches against base names, not paths.
 ignore-patterns=error.py,
-                expr.py,
                 parser.py,
                 schema.py,