Index: ELF/Writer.cpp
===================================================================
--- ELF/Writer.cpp
+++ ELF/Writer.cpp
@@ -1693,8 +1693,8 @@
 
   // RISC-V's gp can address +/- 2 KiB, set it to .sdata + 0x800 if not defined.
   if (Config->EMachine == EM_RISCV)
-    if (!dyn_cast_or_null<Defined>(Symtab->find("__global_pointer$")))
-      addOptionalRegular("__global_pointer$", findSection(".sdata"), 0x800);
+    addOptionalRegular("__global_pointer$", findSection(".sdata"), 0x800,
+                       STV_DEFAULT, STB_GLOBAL);
 
   if (Config->EMachine == EM_X86_64) {
     // On targets that support TLSDESC, _TLS_MODULE_BASE_ is defined in such a
Index: test/ELF/riscv-gp.s
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ test/ELF/riscv-gp.s
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# REQUIRES: riscv
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=riscv32 %s -o %t.32.o
+# RUN: ld.lld -pie %t.32.o -o %t.32
+# RUN: llvm-readelf -s %t.32 | FileCheck --check-prefix=SYM %s
+# RUN: llvm-readelf -S %t.32 | FileCheck --check-prefix=SEC %s
+# RUN: llvm-objdump -d --no-show-raw-insn %t.32 | FileCheck --check-prefix=DIS %s
+
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=riscv64 %s -o %t.64.o
+# RUN: ld.lld -pie %t.64.o -o %t.64
+# RUN: llvm-readelf -s %t.64 | FileCheck --check-prefix=SYM %s
+# RUN: llvm-readelf -S %t.64 | FileCheck --check-prefix=SEC %s
+# RUN: llvm-objdump -d --no-show-raw-insn %t.64 | FileCheck --check-prefix=DIS %s
+
+## __global_pointer$ = .sdata+0x800 = 0x3800
+# SEC: [ 7] .sdata PROGBITS {{0*}}00003000
+# SYM: {{0*}}00003800 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 7 __global_pointer$
+
+## __global_pointer$ - 0x1000 = 4096*3-2048
+# DIS:      1000: auipc gp, 3
+# DIS-NEXT:       addi gp, gp, -2048
+
+lla gp, __global_pointer$
+
+.section .sdata,"aw"