diff --git a/meta-tpm/recipes-core/systemd/files/0001-systemd-meson.build-disable-linker-warnings-as-error.patch b/meta-tpm/recipes-core/systemd/files/0001-systemd-meson.build-disable-linker-warnings-as-error.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..457921d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-tpm/recipes-core/systemd/files/0001-systemd-meson.build-disable-linker-warnings-as-error.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 3bb29e3e924af117c0ade4f38d7c051897dd84e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>
+Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 08:02:17 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] systemd meson.build: disable linker warnings as errors
+
+aarch64 builds with GCS branch protection have issues when linking
+to asm code in libraries without GCS support and linking fails.
+This happens with openssl. Ignore the non-fatal error for now.
+
+Signed-off-by: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>
+---
+ meson.build | 1 -
+ 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [configuration]
+
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index 957e00ecadf..0295a65253c 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -455,7 +455,6 @@ endif
+ # --as-needed and --no-undefined are provided by meson by default,
+ # run 'meson configure' to see what is enabled
+ possible_link_flags = [
+-        '-Wl,--fatal-warnings',
+         '-Wl,-z,now',
+         '-Wl,-z,relro',
+ ]
+-- 
+2.43.0
+
diff --git a/meta-tpm/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend b/meta-tpm/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
index c53b1e8..ca470fe 100644
--- a/meta-tpm/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
+++ b/meta-tpm/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_%.bbappend
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
+SRC_URI:append:aarch64 = " file://0001-systemd-meson.build-disable-linker-warnings-as-error.patch"
+
 PACKAGECONFIG:append = " ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'tpm2', 'tpm2', '', d)}"
 
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