Index: ELF/OutputSections.h
===================================================================
--- ELF/OutputSections.h
+++ ELF/OutputSections.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
   std::string LMARegionName;
   bool NonAlloc = false;
   bool Noload = false;
+  bool ExpressionsUseSymbols = false;
 
   template <class ELFT> void finalize();
   template <class ELFT> void writeTo(uint8_t *Buf);
Index: ELF/OutputSections.cpp
===================================================================
--- ELF/OutputSections.cpp
+++ ELF/OutputSections.cpp
@@ -84,11 +84,10 @@
   if (!Phdrs.empty())
     return false;
 
-  // We do not want to remove sections that have custom address or align
-  // expressions set even if them are empty. We keep them because we
-  // want to be sure that any expressions can be evaluated and report
-  // an error otherwise.
-  if (AddrExpr || AlignExpr || LMAExpr)
+  // We do not want to remove sections that reference symbols in address and
+  // other expressions. We add script symbols as undefined, and want to ensure
+  // all of them are defined in output, hence have to keep them.
+  if (ExpressionsUseSymbols)
     return false;
 
   for (BaseCommand *Base : SectionCommands)
Index: ELF/ScriptParser.cpp
===================================================================
--- ELF/ScriptParser.cpp
+++ ELF/ScriptParser.cpp
@@ -668,6 +668,8 @@
   OutputSection *Cmd =
       Script->createOutputSection(OutSec, getCurrentLocation());
 
+  size_t SymbolsReferenced = Script->ReferencedSymbols.size();
+
   if (peek() != ":")
     readSectionAddressType(Cmd);
   expect(":");
@@ -734,6 +736,8 @@
   // Consume optional comma following output section command.
   consume(",");
 
+  if (Script->ReferencedSymbols.size() > SymbolsReferenced)
+    Cmd->ExpressionsUseSymbols = true;
   return Cmd;
 }
 
Index: test/ELF/linkerscript/empty-sections-expressions.s
===================================================================
--- test/ELF/linkerscript/empty-sections-expressions.s
+++ test/ELF/linkerscript/empty-sections-expressions.s
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=x86_64-unknown-linux %s -o %t.o
+
+## We remove empty sections that do not reference symbols in address,
+## LMA, align and subalign expressions. Here we check that.
+
+# RUN: echo "SECTIONS { .debug_info 0 : { *(.debug_info) } }" > %t.script
+# RUN: ld.lld -o %t --script %t.script %t.o
+# RUN: llvm-objdump -section-headers %t | FileCheck %s
+# CHECK-NOT: debug_info
+
+# RUN: echo "SECTIONS { .debug_info foo : { *(.debug_info) } }" > %t2.script
+# RUN: not ld.lld -o %t --script %t2.script %t.o 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=ERR
+# ERR: symbol not found: foo
+
+.text
+.globl _start
+_start:
+ nop