diff --git a/src/rustllvm/PassWrapper.cpp b/src/rustllvm/PassWrapper.cpp
index 2f28c5b32fb88..85fbc4bf378a5 100644
--- a/src/rustllvm/PassWrapper.cpp
+++ b/src/rustllvm/PassWrapper.cpp
@@ -1084,11 +1084,40 @@ LLVMRustPrepareThinLTOInternalize(const LLVMRustThinLTOData *Data, LLVMModuleRef
 extern "C" bool
 LLVMRustPrepareThinLTOImport(const LLVMRustThinLTOData *Data, LLVMModuleRef M) {
   Module &Mod = *unwrap(M);
+
   const auto &ImportList = Data->ImportLists.lookup(Mod.getModuleIdentifier());
   auto Loader = [&](StringRef Identifier) {
     const auto &Memory = Data->ModuleMap.lookup(Identifier);
     auto &Context = Mod.getContext();
-    return getLazyBitcodeModule(Memory, Context, true, true);
+    auto MOrErr = getLazyBitcodeModule(Memory, Context, true, true);
+
+    if (!MOrErr)
+      return std::move(MOrErr);
+
+    // The rest of this closure is a workaround for
+    // https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38184 where during ThinLTO imports
+    // we accidentally import wasm custom sections into different modules,
+    // duplicating them by in the final output artifact.
+    //
+    // The issue is worked around here by manually removing the
+    // `wasm.custom_sections` named metadata node from any imported module. This
+    // we know isn't used by any optimization pass so there's no need for it to
+    // be imported.
+    //
+    // Note that the metadata is currently lazily loaded, so we materialize it
+    // here before looking up if there's metadata inside. The `FunctionImporter`
+    // will immediately materialize metadata anyway after an import, so this
+    // shouldn't be a perf hit.
+    if (Error Err = (*MOrErr)->materializeMetadata()) {
+      Expected<std::unique_ptr<Module>> Ret(std::move(Err));
+      return std::move(Ret);
+    }
+
+    auto *WasmCustomSections = (*MOrErr)->getNamedMetadata("wasm.custom_sections");
+    if (WasmCustomSections)
+      WasmCustomSections->eraseFromParent();
+
+    return std::move(MOrErr);
   };
   FunctionImporter Importer(Data->Index, Loader);
   Expected<bool> Result = Importer.importFunctions(Mod, ImportList);
diff --git a/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/Makefile b/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..63644c513c30d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+-include ../../run-make-fulldeps/tools.mk
+
+ifeq ($(TARGET),wasm32-unknown-unknown)
+all:
+	$(RUSTC) foo.rs -O --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
+	$(NODE) foo.js $(TMPDIR)/foo.wasm
+else
+all:
+endif
diff --git a/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/foo.js b/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/foo.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1d1a9bd13eea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/foo.js
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const process = require('process');
+const assert = require('assert');
+const buffer = fs.readFileSync(process.argv[2]);
+
+let m = new WebAssembly.Module(buffer);
+
+sections = WebAssembly.Module.customSections(m, "foo");
+console.log('section foo', sections);
+assert.strictEqual(sections.length, 1, "didn't create `foo` section");
+section = new Uint8Array(sections[0]);
+console.log('contents', section);
+assert.strictEqual(section.length, 4, "didn't concatenate `foo` sections");
+
+process.exit(0);
diff --git a/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/foo.rs b/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/foo.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4d983514a2360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-make/wasm-custom-sections-opt/foo.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+#![crate_type = "cdylib"]
+#![deny(warnings)]
+
+#[link_section = "foo"]
+pub static A: [u8; 2] = [1, 2];
+
+// make sure this is in another CGU
+pub mod another {
+    #[link_section = "foo"]
+    pub static FOO: [u8; 2] = [3, 4];
+
+    pub fn foo() {}
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub extern fn foo() {
+    // This will import `another::foo` through ThinLTO passes, and it better not
+    // also accidentally import the `FOO` custom section into this module as
+    // well
+    another::foo();
+}