Index: ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
===================================================================
--- ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
+++ ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
@@ -498,7 +498,9 @@
   // When control reaches here, mergeable sections have already been merged into
   // synthetic sections. For relocatable case we want to create one output
   // section per syntetic section so that they have a valid sh_entsize.
-  if (Config->Relocatable && (IS->Flags & SHF_MERGE))
+  if (Config->Relocatable && (IS->Flags & SHF_MERGE) &&
+      !((IS->Flags & SHF_STRINGS) &&
+        (IS->Name.startswith(".debug") || IS->Name.startswith(".zdebug"))))
     return createSection(IS, OutsecName);
 
   //  The ELF spec just says
Index: test/ELF/merge-relocatable-O0.s
===================================================================
--- test/ELF/merge-relocatable-O0.s
+++ test/ELF/merge-relocatable-O0.s
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=x86_64-pc-linux %s -o %t.o
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=x86_64-pc-linux %s -o %t2.o
+# RUN: ld.lld -r -O0 %t.o %t2.o -o %t
+# RUN: llvm-objdump -section-headers %t | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=RODATA
+# RUN: llvm-objdump -section-headers %t | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=DEBUG_STR
+
+# RODATA:         .rodata.1
+# RODATA:         .rodata.1
+# DEBUG_STR:         .debug_str
+# DEBUG_STR-NOT:     .debug_str
+
+.section        .rodata.1,"aM",@progbits,4
+        .align  4
+        .long   0x42
+.section         .debug_str,"MS",@progbits,1
+        .asciz  "string"