diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index b247f399de71..b6793c7932a9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ SECTIONS
      * The EFI stub always executes from RAM, and runs strictly before the
      * decompressor, so we can make an exception for its r/w data, and keep it
      */
-    *(.data.efistub)
+    *(.data.efistub .bss.efistub)
     __pecoff_data_end = .;
 
     /*
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
index 9a712a6e2f87..aa3ab9a4105e 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
@@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ quiet_cmd_stubcopy = STUBCPY $@
 
 #
 # ARM discards the .data section because it disallows r/w data in the
-# decompressor. So move our .data to .data.efistub, which is preserved
-# explicitly by the decompressor linker script.
+# decompressor. So move our .data to .data.efistub and .bss to .bss.efistub,
+# which are preserved explicitly by the decompressor linker script.
 #
-STUBCOPY_FLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM)	+= --rename-section .data=.data.efistub
+STUBCOPY_FLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM)	+= --rename-section .data=.data.efistub	\
+				   --rename-section .bss=.bss.efistub,load,alloc
 STUBCOPY_RELOC-$(CONFIG_ARM)	:= R_ARM_ABS
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
index 2a0698d9dc78..96e25b17c88e 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #define EFI_ALLOC_ALIGN		EFI_PAGE_SIZE
 #endif
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_ARM) || defined(CONFIG_X86)
+#if defined(CONFIG_X86)
 #define __efistub_global	__section(.data)
 #else
 #define __efistub_global