diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVELFStreamer.h b/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVELFStreamer.h
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVELFStreamer.h
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVELFStreamer.h
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@
   void finishAttributeSection() override;
   size_t calculateContentSize() const;
 
+  void reset() override;
+
 public:
   MCELFStreamer &getStreamer();
   RISCVTargetELFStreamer(MCStreamer &S, const MCSubtargetInfo &STI);
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVELFStreamer.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVELFStreamer.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVELFStreamer.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVELFStreamer.cpp
@@ -180,6 +180,11 @@
   MCA.setELFHeaderEFlags(EFlags);
 }
 
+void RISCVTargetELFStreamer::reset() {
+  AttributeSection = nullptr;
+  Contents.clear();
+}
+
 namespace {
 class RISCVELFStreamer : public MCELFStreamer {
   static std::pair<unsigned, unsigned> getRelocPairForSize(unsigned Size) {
@@ -226,6 +231,13 @@
                             : !B.getName().empty());
   }
 
+  void reset() override {
+    MCTargetStreamer &TS = *getTargetStreamer();
+    RISCVTargetStreamer &RTS = static_cast<RISCVTargetStreamer &>(TS);
+    RTS.reset();
+    MCELFStreamer::reset();
+  }
+
 public:
   RISCVELFStreamer(MCContext &C, std::unique_ptr<MCAsmBackend> MAB,
                    std::unique_ptr<MCObjectWriter> MOW,
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVTargetStreamer.h b/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVTargetStreamer.h
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVTargetStreamer.h
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVTargetStreamer.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 public:
   RISCVTargetStreamer(MCStreamer &S);
   void finish() override;
+  virtual void reset();
 
   virtual void emitDirectiveOptionPush();
   virtual void emitDirectiveOptionPop();
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVTargetStreamer.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVTargetStreamer.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVTargetStreamer.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/MCTargetDesc/RISCVTargetStreamer.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 RISCVTargetStreamer::RISCVTargetStreamer(MCStreamer &S) : MCTargetStreamer(S) {}
 
 void RISCVTargetStreamer::finish() { finishAttributeSection(); }
+void RISCVTargetStreamer::reset() {}
 
 void RISCVTargetStreamer::emitDirectiveOptionPush() {}
 void RISCVTargetStreamer::emitDirectiveOptionPop() {}
diff --git a/llvm/test/MC/RISCV/twice.ll b/llvm/test/MC/RISCV/twice.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/MC/RISCV/twice.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+; Check for state persistence bugs in the RISC-V MC backend
+; This should neither fail (in the comparison that the second object
+; is bit-identical to the first) nor crash. Either failure would most
+; likely indicate some state that is not properly reset in the
+; appropriate ::reset method.
+; RUN: llc -compile-twice -filetype=obj -mtriple=riscv64 %s -o - \
+; RUN:     | llvm-objdump --section-headers - \
+; RUN:     | FileCheck %s
+
+; CHECK: Sections:
+; CHECK-NEXT: Idx Name              Size     VMA              Type
+; CHECK-NEXT:  0
+; CHECK-NEXT:  1 .strtab
+; CHECK-NEXT:  2 .text
+; CHECK-NEXT:  3 .note.GNU-stack
+; CHECK-NEXT:  4 .riscv.attributes
+; CHECK-NEXT:  5 .symtab