diff --git a/scripts/qapi-types.py b/scripts/qapi-types.py
index 19d1fff877..0306a884c3 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi-types.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi-types.py
@@ -116,17 +116,8 @@ static inline %(base)s *qapi_%(c_name)s_base(const %(c_name)s *obj)
 
 
 def gen_variants(variants):
-    # FIXME: What purpose does data serve, besides preventing a union that
-    # has a branch named 'data'? We use it in qapi-visit.py to decide
-    # whether to bypass the switch statement if visiting the discriminator
-    # failed; but since we 0-initialize structs, and cannot tell what
-    # branch of the union is in use if the discriminator is invalid, there
-    # should not be any data leaks even without a data pointer.  Or, if
-    # 'data' is merely added to guarantee we don't have an empty union,
-    # shouldn't we enforce that at .json parse time?
     ret = mcgen('''
     union { /* union tag is @%(c_name)s */
-        void *data;
 ''',
                 c_name=c_name(variants.tag_member.name))
 
diff --git a/tests/Makefile b/tests/Makefile
index 04e34b5c7e..cd4bbd41ad 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile
+++ b/tests/Makefile
@@ -358,7 +358,6 @@ qapi-schema += unicode-str.json
 qapi-schema += union-base-no-discriminator.json
 qapi-schema += union-branch-case.json
 qapi-schema += union-clash-branches.json
-qapi-schema += union-clash-data.json
 qapi-schema += union-empty.json
 qapi-schema += union-invalid-base.json
 qapi-schema += union-optional-branch.json
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.err b/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.err
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.exit b/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.exit
deleted file mode 100644
index 573541ac97..0000000000
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.exit
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.json b/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 7308e69f9c..0000000000
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Union branch 'data'
-# FIXME: this parses, but then fails to compile due to a duplicate 'data'
-# (one from the branch name, another as a filler to avoid an empty union).
-# we should either detect the collision at parse time, or change the
-# generated struct to allow this to compile.
-{ 'union': 'TestUnion',
-  'data': { 'data': 'int' } }
diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.out b/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.out
deleted file mode 100644
index f5752f4595..0000000000
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/union-clash-data.out
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-object :empty
-object :obj-int-wrapper
-    member data: int optional=False
-enum QType ['none', 'qnull', 'qint', 'qstring', 'qdict', 'qlist', 'qfloat', 'qbool']
-    prefix QTYPE
-object TestUnion
-    member type: TestUnionKind optional=False
-    case data: :obj-int-wrapper
-enum TestUnionKind ['data']