diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
index 6b6548fda089..86ff7bfa6ace 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
 /* error code which can't be mistaken for valid address */
 #define EFI_ERROR	(~0UL)
 
+/*
+ * __init annotations should not be used in the EFI stub, since the code is
+ * either included in the decompressor (x86, ARM) where they have no effect,
+ * or the whole stub is __init annotated at the section level (arm64), by
+ * renaming the sections, in which case the __init annotation will be
+ * redundant, and will result in section names like .init.init.text, and our
+ * linker script does not expect that.
+ */
+#undef __init
+
 void efi_char16_printk(efi_system_table_t *, efi_char16_t *);
 
 efi_status_t efi_open_volume(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, void *__image,