diff --git a/lld/ELF/LTO.cpp b/lld/ELF/LTO.cpp
index 3710bef345ee..098e842597dd 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/LTO.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/LTO.cpp
@@ -154,8 +154,14 @@ void BitcodeCompiler::add(BitcodeFile &F) {
     R.VisibleToRegularObj = Config->Relocatable || Sym->IsUsedInRegularObj ||
                             (R.Prevailing && Sym->includeInDynsym()) ||
                             UsedStartStop.count(ObjSym.getSectionName());
+    const auto *DR = dyn_cast<Defined>(Sym);
     R.FinalDefinitionInLinkageUnit =
-        Sym->isDefined() && (IsExecutable || Sym->Visibility != STV_DEFAULT);
+        (IsExecutable || Sym->Visibility != STV_DEFAULT) && DR &&
+        // Skip absolute symbols from ELF objects, otherwise PC-rel relocations
+        // will be generated by for them, triggering linker errors.
+        // Symbol section is always null for bitcode symbols, hence the check
+        // for isElf().
+        !(Sym->File && Sym->File->isElf() && DR->Section == nullptr);
 
     if (R.Prevailing)
       undefine(Sym);
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/lto/Inputs/absolute.s b/lld/test/ELF/lto/Inputs/absolute.s
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..63fbc9f9234c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/lto/Inputs/absolute.s
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+.globl blah
+ blah = 0xdeadbeef
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/lto/abs-resol.ll b/lld/test/ELF/lto/abs-resol.ll
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..eddf49988a95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/lto/abs-resol.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+; REQUIRES: x86
+
+; RUN: llvm-as %s -o %t.o
+; RUN: llvm-mc -triple=x86_64-pc-linux %p/Inputs/absolute.s -o %t2.o -filetype=obj
+; RUN: ld.lld %t.o %t2.o -o %t.out -pie
+
+target datalayout = "e-m:e-i64:64-f80:128-n8:16:32:64-S128"
+target triple = "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
+
+@blah = external global i8, align 1
+
+define i8* @_start() {
+ ret i8* @blah
+}