diff --git a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-objcopy.rst b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-objcopy.rst
--- a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-objcopy.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-objcopy.rst
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@
 .. option:: --strip-all, -S
 
  For ELF objects, remove from the output all symbols and non-alloc sections not
- within segments, except for .gnu.warning sections and the section name table.
+ within segments, except for .gnu.warning, .ARM.attribute sections and the
+ section name table.
 
  For COFF and Mach-O objects, remove all symbols, debug sections, and
  relocations from the output.
diff --git a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst
--- a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-strip.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@
 .. option:: --strip-all, -S
 
  For ELF objects, remove from the output all symbols and non-alloc sections not
- within segments, except for .gnu.warning sections and the section name table.
+ within segments, except for .gnu.warning, .ARM.attribute sections and the
+ section name table.
 
  For COFF objects, remove all symbols, debug sections, and relocations from the
  output.
diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/strip-preserve-arm-attributes.test b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/strip-preserve-arm-attributes.test
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/strip-preserve-arm-attributes.test
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+## This test makes sure that --strip-all and --strip-all-gnu preserve
+## .ARM.attributes sections in ELF files. This is needed to maintain
+## compatibility for Ubuntu/Debian distributions on ARM.
+
+# RUN: yaml2obj %s > %t
+# RUN: llvm-objcopy --strip-all %t %t2
+# RUN: llvm-readobj --sections %t2 | FileCheck %s
+# RUN: llvm-objcopy --strip-all-gnu %t %t3
+# RUN: llvm-readobj --sections %t3 | FileCheck %s
+# RUN: llvm-strip %t -o %t4
+# RUN: cmp %t4 %t2
+# RUN: llvm-strip --strip-all-gnu %t -o %t5
+# RUN: cmp %t5 %t3
+
+!ELF
+FileHeader:
+  Class:           ELFCLASS32
+  Data:            ELFDATA2LSB
+  Type:            ET_DYN
+  Machine:         EM_ARM
+Sections:
+  - Name:            .ARM.attributes
+    Type:            SHT_ARM_ATTRIBUTES
+
+# CHECK: Name: .ARM.attributes
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/CommonOpts.td b/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/CommonOpts.td
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/CommonOpts.td
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/CommonOpts.td
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
 
 def strip_all : Flag<["--"], "strip-all">,
                 HelpText<"Remove non-allocated sections outside segments. "
-                         ".gnu.warning* sections are not removed">;
+                         ".gnu.warning* and .ARM.attribute sections are not "
+                         "removed">;
 
 def strip_all_gnu
     : Flag<["--"], "strip-all-gnu">,
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/ELFObjcopy.cpp b/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/ELFObjcopy.cpp
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/ELFObjcopy.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-objcopy/ELF/ELFObjcopy.cpp
@@ -503,6 +503,12 @@
         return false;
       if (StringRef(Sec.Name).startswith(".gnu.warning"))
         return false;
+      // We keep the .ARM.attribute section to maintain compatibility
+      // with Debian derived distributions. This is a bug in their
+      // patchset as documented here:
+      // https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=943798
+      if (Sec.Type == SHT_ARM_ATTRIBUTES)
+        return false;
       if (Sec.ParentSegment != nullptr)
         return false;
       return (Sec.Flags & SHF_ALLOC) == 0;