diff --git a/resources/checkstyle.xml b/resources/checkstyle.xml
index 6a6774733e..0266117d89 100644
--- a/resources/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/resources/checkstyle.xml
@@ -41,10 +41,7 @@
         </module>
         <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
         <module name="RedundantImport"/>
-        <module name="RedundantModifier">
-            <!-- VARIABLE_DEF disabled -->
-            <property name="tokens" value="METHOD_DEF, ANNOTATION_FIELD_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF"/>
-        </module>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
         <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
         <module name="TypeName"/>
         <module name="UnnecessaryParentheses"/>