diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/Inputs/arm-vfp-arg-vfp-vendor.yaml b/lld/test/ELF/Inputs/arm-vfp-arg-vfp-vendor.yaml
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/Inputs/arm-vfp-arg-vfp-vendor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Variant form of the object compiled from arm-vfp-arg-vfp.s which
+# adds a vendor attribute subsection in front of the "aeabi" one. LLD
+# ought to skip over it and still parse the "aeabi" subsection beyond
+# it.
+#
+# This file was generated by building arm-vfp-arg-vfp.s, running
+# yaml2obj over it, and manually inserting the hex string
+# 2000000053686F756C64426549676E6F72656400FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
+# after the initial version byte of the attributes section, which
+# unpacks as a 32-bit length word, the zero-terminated vendor name
+# string "ShouldBeIgnored", and dummy data that's all FFs (since the
+# interior of a vendor subsection is not required to adhere to any
+# standard format).
+
+--- !ELF
+FileHeader:
+  Class:           ELFCLASS32
+  Data:            ELFDATA2LSB
+  Type:            ET_REL
+  Machine:         EM_ARM
+  Flags:           [ EF_ARM_EABI_VER5 ]
+  SectionHeaderStringTable: .strtab
+Sections:
+  - Name:            .text
+    Type:            SHT_PROGBITS
+    Flags:           [ SHF_ALLOC, SHF_EXECINSTR ]
+    AddressAlign:    0x4
+    Content:         1EFF2FE1
+  - Name:            .ARM.attributes
+    Type:            SHT_ARM_ATTRIBUTES
+    AddressAlign:    0x1
+    Content:         412000000053686F756C64426549676E6F72656400FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF30000000616561626900012600000005372D4100060A0741080109021204140115011703180119011A021C011E062201
+  - Type:            SectionHeaderTable
+    Sections:
+      - Name:            .strtab
+      - Name:            .text
+      - Name:            .ARM.attributes
+      - Name:            .symtab
+Symbols:
+  - Name:            '$a.0'
+    Section:         .text
+  - Name:            f1
+    Type:            STT_FUNC
+    Section:         .text
+    Binding:         STB_GLOBAL
+...
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/arm-tag-vfp-args-errs.s b/lld/test/ELF/arm-tag-vfp-args-errs.s
--- a/lld/test/ELF/arm-tag-vfp-args-errs.s
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/arm-tag-vfp-args-errs.s
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 // REQUIRES:arm
 // RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=armv7a-none-linux-gnueabi %S/Inputs/arm-vfp-arg-base.s -o %tbase.o
 // RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=armv7a-none-linux-gnueabi %S/Inputs/arm-vfp-arg-vfp.s -o %tvfp.o
+// RUN: yaml2obj %S/Inputs/arm-vfp-arg-vfp-vendor.yaml -o %tvfpvendor.o
 // RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=armv7a-none-linux-gnueabi %S/Inputs/arm-vfp-arg-toolchain.s -o %ttoolchain.o
 // RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=armv7a-none-linux-gnueabi %s -o %t.o
 // RUN: not ld.lld %t.o %tbase.o %tvfp.o -o%t 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
+// RUN: not ld.lld %t.o %tbase.o %tvfpvendor.o -o%t 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
 // RUN: not ld.lld %t.o %tbase.o %ttoolchain.o -o%t 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
 // RUN: not ld.lld %t.o %tvfp.o %tbase.o -o%t 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
 // RUN: not ld.lld %t.o %tvfp.o %ttoolchain.o -o%t 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Support/ELFAttributeParser.cpp b/llvm/lib/Support/ELFAttributeParser.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Support/ELFAttributeParser.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Support/ELFAttributeParser.cpp
@@ -127,10 +127,14 @@
     sw->printString("Vendor", vendorName);
   }
 
-  // Ignore unrecognized vendor-name.
-  if (vendorName.lower() != vendor)
-    return createStringError(errc::invalid_argument,
-                             "unrecognized vendor-name: " + vendorName);
+  // Handle a subsection with an unrecognized vendor-name by skipping
+  // over it to the next subsection. ADDENDA32 in the Arm ABI defines
+  // that vendor attribute sections must not affect compatibility, so
+  // this should always be safe.
+  if (vendorName.lower() != vendor) {
+    cursor.seek(end);
+    return Error::success();
+  }
 
   while (cursor.tell() < end) {
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