diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 #include "clang/Basic/SourceManager.h"
 #include "clang/Basic/TargetInfo.h"
 #include "clang/Basic/Version.h"
+#include "clang/CodeGen/BackendUtil.h"
 #include "clang/CodeGen/ConstantInitBuilder.h"
 #include "clang/Frontend/FrontendDiagnostic.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/StringSwitch.h"
@@ -876,6 +877,9 @@
 
   EmitBackendOptionsMetadata(getCodeGenOpts());
 
+  // If there is device offloading code embed it in the host now.
+  EmbedObject(&getModule(), CodeGenOpts, getDiags());
+
   // Set visibility from DLL storage class
   // We do this at the end of LLVM IR generation; after any operation
   // that might affect the DLL storage class or the visibility, and
diff --git a/clang/test/Frontend/embed-object.c b/clang/test/Frontend/embed-object.c
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang/test/Frontend/embed-object.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+// RUN: %clang_cc1 -x c -triple x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -emit-llvm -fembed-offload-object=%S/Inputs/empty.h,section
+
+// CHECK: @[[OBJECT:.+]] = private constant [0 x i8] zeroinitializer, section ".llvm.offloading.section"
+// CHECK: @llvm.compiler.used = appending global [3 x i8*] [i8* getelementptr inbounds ([0 x i8], [0 x i8]* @[[OBJECT1]]], section "llvm.metadata"
+
+void foo(void) {}