diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
index d27dd982ff267df105d8f8b75d8039719b3aaec9..f5374065ad535f31e5065aa07694d0b58ae9f583 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
 #include <asm/efi.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 
-efi_status_t handle_kernel_image(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
-				 unsigned long *image_addr,
-				 unsigned long *image_size,
-				 unsigned long *reserve_addr,
-				 unsigned long *reserve_size,
-				 unsigned long dram_base,
-				 efi_loaded_image_t *image)
+efi_status_t __init handle_kernel_image(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
+					unsigned long *image_addr,
+					unsigned long *image_size,
+					unsigned long *reserve_addr,
+					unsigned long *reserve_size,
+					unsigned long dram_base,
+					efi_loaded_image_t *image)
 {
 	efi_status_t status;
 	unsigned long kernel_size, kernel_memsize = 0;
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
index b14bc2b9fb4df5aebdfbd7e538e498f9e2fd65d7..8902f52e0998a6416c504286e95ca1c878437327 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
@@ -24,3 +24,17 @@ lib-y				:= efi-stub-helper.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_EFI_ARMSTUB)	+= arm-stub.o fdt.o
 
 CFLAGS_fdt.o			+= -I$(srctree)/scripts/dtc/libfdt/
+
+#
+# arm64 puts the stub in the kernel proper, which will unnecessarily retain all
+# code indefinitely unless it is annotated as __init/__initdata/__initconst etc.
+# So let's apply the __init annotations at the section level, by prefixing
+# the section names directly. This will ensure that even all the inline string
+# literals are covered.
+#
+extra-$(CONFIG_ARM64)		:= $(lib-y)
+lib-$(CONFIG_ARM64)		:= $(patsubst %.o,%.init.o,$(lib-y))
+
+OBJCOPYFLAGS := --prefix-alloc-sections=.init
+$(obj)/%.init.o: $(obj)/%.o FORCE
+	$(call if_changed,objcopy)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
index 75ee05964cbc460fc0b6686a50a1f664fac8c0e7..a1fda71c425a1023fed86543112d4a588ec3fdb7 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@
 
 #include "efistub.h"
 
-static int __init efi_secureboot_enabled(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg)
+static int efi_secureboot_enabled(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg)
 {
-	static efi_guid_t const var_guid __initconst = EFI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE_GUID;
-	static efi_char16_t const var_name[] __initconst = {
+	static efi_guid_t const var_guid = EFI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE_GUID;
+	static efi_char16_t const var_name[] = {
 		'S', 'e', 'c', 'u', 'r', 'e', 'B', 'o', 'o', 't', 0 };
 
 	efi_get_variable_t *f_getvar = sys_table_arg->runtime->get_variable;
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ efi_status_t handle_kernel_image(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
  * for both archictectures, with the arch-specific code provided in the
  * handle_kernel_image() function.
  */
-unsigned long __init efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
+unsigned long efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
 			       unsigned long *image_addr)
 {
 	efi_loaded_image_t *image;
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
index a920fec8fe8856132191e5b08b95c227310078f8..9bd9fbb5bea821da5ef6f68c986e906c47292129 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ efi_status_t efi_get_memory_map(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
 }
 
 
-unsigned long __init get_dram_base(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg)
+unsigned long get_dram_base(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg)
 {
 	efi_status_t status;
 	unsigned long map_size;