diff --git a/sci-libs/rocBLAS/rocBLAS-5.7.1-r1.ebuild b/sci-libs/rocBLAS/rocBLAS-5.7.1-r1.ebuild
index a6ac3e7e3b2cc..77a659cb9a093 100644
--- a/sci-libs/rocBLAS/rocBLAS-5.7.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-libs/rocBLAS/rocBLAS-5.7.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -104,4 +104,8 @@ src_install() {
 		dolib.a clients/librocblas_fortran_client.a
 		dobin clients/staging/rocblas-bench
 	fi
+
+	# Stop llvm-strip from removing .strtab section from *.hsaco files,
+	# otherwise rocclr/elf/elf.cpp complains with "failed: null sections(STRTAB)" and crashes
+	dostrip -x /usr/$(get_libdir)/rocblas/library/
 }