diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 3962f592633d..72fec004b300 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -include $(srctree)/$(src)/hidden.h
 
 KBUILD_AFLAGS  := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/hidden.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/hidden.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..49a17b6b5962
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/hidden.h
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * When building position independent code with GCC using the -fPIC option,
+ * (or even the -fPIE one on older versions), it will assume that we are
+ * building a dynamic object (either a shared library or an executable) that
+ * may have symbol references that can only be resolved at load time. For a
+ * variety of reasons (ELF symbol preemption, the CoW footprint of the section
+ * that is modified by the loader), this results in all references to symbols
+ * with external linkage to go via entries in the Global Offset Table (GOT),
+ * which carries absolute addresses which need to be fixed up when the
+ * executable image is loaded at an offset which is different from its link
+ * time offset.
+ *
+ * Fortunately, there is a way to inform the compiler that such symbol
+ * references will be satisfied at link time rather than at load time, by
+ * giving them 'hidden' visibility.
+ */
+
+#pragma GCC visibility push(hidden)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
index b17d218ccdf9..4bcc943842ab 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	DISCARDS
 }
 
+ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got) == 0, "Unexpected GOT entries detected!")
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
 ASSERT(SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0 || SIZEOF(.got.plt) == 0x18, "Unexpected GOT/PLT entries detected!")
 #else