diff --git a/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp b/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
index c33ff0f66f758..1fddf40f5b22a 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
@@ -418,6 +418,14 @@ elf::ObjectFile<ELFT>::createInputSection(const Elf_Shdr &Sec,
   if (Config->Strip != StripPolicy::None && Name.startswith(".debug"))
     return &InputSection<ELFT>::Discarded;
 
+  // The linkonce feature is a sort of proto-comdat. Some glibc i386 object
+  // files contain definitions of symbol "__x86.get_pc_thunk.bx" in linkonce
+  // sections. Drop those sections to avoid duplicate symbol errors.
+  // FIXME: This is glibc PR20543, we should remove this hack once that has been
+  // fixed for a while.
+  if (Name.startswith(".gnu.linkonce."))
+    return &InputSection<ELFT>::Discarded;
+
   // The linker merges EH (exception handling) frames and creates a
   // .eh_frame_hdr section for runtime. So we handle them with a special
   // class. For relocatable outputs, they are just passed through.
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/comdat-linkonce.s b/lld/test/ELF/comdat-linkonce.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..78611b4a9f262
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/comdat-linkonce.s
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=x86_64-pc-linux %s -o %t.o
+// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=x86_64-pc-linux %p/Inputs/comdat.s -o %t2.o
+// RUN: ld.lld -shared %t.o %t2.o -o %t
+// RUN: ld.lld -shared %t2.o %t.o -o %t
+
+.section .gnu.linkonce.t.zed
+.globl abc
+abc:
+nop