diff --git a/lld/MachO/ObjC.cpp b/lld/MachO/ObjC.cpp
index 4760fffebe3b3..e5197c33f5436 100644
--- a/lld/MachO/ObjC.cpp
+++ b/lld/MachO/ObjC.cpp
@@ -186,13 +186,26 @@ ObjcCategoryChecker::ObjcCategoryChecker()
       roClassLayout(target->wordSize), listHeaderLayout(target->wordSize),
       methodLayout(target->wordSize) {}
 
-// \p r must point to an offset within a cstring section.
+// \p r must point to an offset within a CStringInputSection or a
+// ConcatInputSection
 static StringRef getReferentString(const Reloc &r) {
   if (auto *isec = r.referent.dyn_cast<InputSection *>())
     return cast<CStringInputSection>(isec)->getStringRefAtOffset(r.addend);
+
   auto *sym = cast<Defined>(r.referent.get<Symbol *>());
-  return cast<CStringInputSection>(sym->isec())
-      ->getStringRefAtOffset(sym->value + r.addend);
+  auto *symIsec = sym->isec();
+  auto symOffset = sym->value + r.addend;
+
+  if (auto *s = dyn_cast_or_null<CStringInputSection>(symIsec))
+    return s->getStringRefAtOffset(symOffset);
+
+  if (isa<ConcatInputSection>(symIsec)) {
+    auto strData = symIsec->data.slice(symOffset);
+    const char *pszData = reinterpret_cast<const char *>(strData.data());
+    return StringRef(pszData, strnlen(pszData, strData.size()));
+  }
+
+  llvm_unreachable("unknown reference section in getReferentString");
 }
 
 void ObjcCategoryChecker::parseMethods(const ConcatInputSection *methodsIsec,
diff --git a/lld/test/MachO/objc-category-merging-extern-class-minimal.s b/lld/test/MachO/objc-category-merging-extern-class-minimal.s
index ea79f29a421c5..f7d333ef70fce 100644
--- a/lld/test/MachO/objc-category-merging-extern-class-minimal.s
+++ b/lld/test/MachO/objc-category-merging-extern-class-minimal.s
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ __OBJC_$_CATEGORY_MyBaseClass_$_Category01:
 	.quad	0
 	.long	64                              ; 0x40
 	.space	4
-	.section	__TEXT,__objc_classname,cstring_literals
+	.section	__DATA,__objc_const
 l_OBJC_CLASS_NAME_.1:                   ; @OBJC_CLASS_NAME_.1
 	.asciz	"Category02"
 	.section	__TEXT,__objc_methname,cstring_literals