Index: ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
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--- ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
+++ ELF/SyntheticSections.cpp
@@ -1491,15 +1491,15 @@
 }
 
 void RelocationBaseSection::finalizeContents() {
-  // If all relocations are R_*_{,I}RELATIVE they don't refer to any dynamic
-  // symbol and we don't need a dynamic symbol table. If that is the case, use
-  // the index of the regular symbol table section (if exists) or 0.
-  if (In.DynSymTab)
-    getParent()->Link = In.DynSymTab->getParent()->SectionIndex;
-  else if (In.SymTab)
-    getParent()->Link = In.SymTab->getParent()->SectionIndex;
-  else
-    getParent()->Link = 0;
+  // When linking glibc statically, .rela?.plt contains R_*_IRELATIVE
+  // relocations due to IFUNC (e.g. strcpy). Just set sh_link to 0 as there is
+  // no .dynsym. We cannot set it to .symtab as otherwise GNU strip will change
+  // the address of .rela.plt (and rename it to .rela.got.plt) and break
+  // __rela_iplt_{start,end} used in glibc/csu/libc-start.c:apply_irel. Note,
+  // GNU readelf will warn "Link field (0) should index a symtab section", but
+  // we can live with that.
+  getParent()->Link =
+      In.DynSymTab ? In.DynSymTab->getParent()->SectionIndex : 0;
 
   if (In.RelaIplt == this || In.RelaPlt == this)
     getParent()->Info = In.GotPlt->getParent()->SectionIndex;