diff --git a/core/relinker/CMakeLists.txt b/core/relinker/CMakeLists.txt
index 44fb13e832..d2a3387683 100644
--- a/core/relinker/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/core/relinker/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -686,6 +686,8 @@ if(BUILD_TESTING)
             ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/relinker/tests/test_syscall_number.py $<TARGET_FILE:relinker>)
         add_test(NAME unused_filter_indirect COMMAND ${Python3_EXECUTABLE}
             ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/relinker/tests/test_unused_filter_indirect.py $<TARGET_FILE:relinker>)
+        add_test(NAME unused_filter_fallthrough_padding COMMAND ${Python3_EXECUTABLE}
+            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/relinker/tests/test_unused_filter_fallthrough_padding.py $<TARGET_FILE:relinker>)
     else()
         message(STATUS "Python3 interpreter not found; skipping Python relinker tests")
     endif()
diff --git a/core/relinker/relinker/src/analysis/UnusedNidFilter/ControlFlowGraph.cpp b/core/relinker/relinker/src/analysis/UnusedNidFilter/ControlFlowGraph.cpp
index 4ef6bdf112..443ff5dc57 100644
--- a/core/relinker/relinker/src/analysis/UnusedNidFilter/ControlFlowGraph.cpp
+++ b/core/relinker/relinker/src/analysis/UnusedNidFilter/ControlFlowGraph.cpp
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ namespace {
 void buildGraph(std::span<const std::uint8_t> text, VirtualAddress textVaddr, VirtualAddress entryVaddr, const std::vector<VirtualAddress>& extraEntries, const IRelativeRelocationIndex& relativeRelocations, const std::vector<StrictDataRegion>* data, bool followCodeAddresses, std::unordered_set<VirtualAddress>& reachable, const std::function<void(std::uint64_t)>& progress, const std::function<bool(VirtualAddress)>& isData) {
     if (text.size() > std::numeric_limits<VirtualAddress>::max() - textVaddr)
         throw RelinkerException("Text section range exceeds the address space");
+    std::size_t codeSize = text.size();
+    while (codeSize > 0 && text[codeSize - 1] == 0) --codeSize;
     const Codegen::X64InstructionDecoder decoder;
     std::unordered_set<VirtualAddress> visited;
     std::queue<VirtualAddress> worklist;
@@ -68,8 +70,9 @@ void buildGraph(std::span<const std::uint8_t> text, VirtualAddress textVaddr, Vi
 
         VirtualAddress va = worklist.front();
         worklist.pop();
+        const VirtualAddress blockEntry = va;
 
-        while (va >= textVaddr && va - textVaddr < text.size() && !reachable.contains(va) && !(isData && isData(va))) {
+        while (va >= textVaddr && va - textVaddr < text.size() && (va == blockEntry || va - textVaddr < codeSize) && !reachable.contains(va) && !(isData && isData(va))) {
             std::size_t bufOff = static_cast<std::size_t>(va - textVaddr);
             std::size_t available = text.size() - bufOff;
             if (available == 0) throw RelinkerException("CFG: zero available bytes at target", va);
diff --git a/core/relinker/relinker/tests/ControlFlowGraphTests.cpp b/core/relinker/relinker/tests/ControlFlowGraphTests.cpp
index 2d0fb562ec..718e5ddb07 100644
--- a/core/relinker/relinker/tests/ControlFlowGraphTests.cpp
+++ b/core/relinker/relinker/tests/ControlFlowGraphTests.cpp
@@ -141,6 +141,44 @@ void CheckSpeculativeRoots() {
     Require(threw, "Malformed mandatory root was treated as speculative");
 }
 
+void CheckTrailingZeroRoots() {
+    const Pointers pointers;
+    const Bytes lone{0x00};
+    bool threw = false;
+    try {
+        BuildControlFlowGraph(lone, TextAddress, TextAddress, {}, pointers);
+    } catch (const Codegen::CodegenException&) {
+        threw = true;
+    }
+    Require(threw, "A lone zero instruction at the entry was not decoded");
+
+    const Bytes trailing{0xc3, 0x00};
+    threw = false;
+    try {
+        BuildControlFlowGraph(trailing, TextAddress, TextAddress, {TextAddress + 1}, pointers);
+    } catch (const Codegen::CodegenException&) {
+        threw = true;
+    }
+    Require(threw, "A zero instruction at an extra entry was not decoded");
+
+    const Bytes jump{0xeb, 0x00, 0x00};
+    threw = false;
+    try {
+        BuildControlFlowGraph(jump, TextAddress, TextAddress, {}, pointers);
+    } catch (const Codegen::CodegenException&) {
+        threw = true;
+    }
+    Require(threw, "A branch into a truncated zero instruction was not decoded");
+
+    const Bytes pair{0x00, 0x00};
+    const auto complete = BuildControlFlowGraph(pair, TextAddress, TextAddress, {}, pointers);
+    RequireOffsets(*complete, {0});
+
+    const Bytes immediate{0xb8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00};
+    const auto zeroImmediate = BuildControlFlowGraph(immediate, TextAddress, TextAddress, {}, pointers);
+    RequireOffsets(*zeroImmediate, {0});
+}
+
 void CheckBorrowedReachability() {
     const Pointers pointers;
     const Bytes text{0x90, 0x90, 0xc3, 0x90, 0xc3};
@@ -223,6 +261,7 @@ int main() {
         CheckRelocatedTransfers();
         CheckCodeAddresses();
         CheckSpeculativeRoots();
+        CheckTrailingZeroRoots();
         CheckBorrowedReachability();
         CheckAddressOverflow();
         CheckHighVirtualAddress();
diff --git a/core/relinker/relinker/tests/test_unused_filter_fallthrough_padding.py b/core/relinker/relinker/tests/test_unused_filter_fallthrough_padding.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e40e0d5347
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/relinker/relinker/tests/test_unused_filter_fallthrough_padding.py
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+import struct
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+
+CODE = 0x1000
+GOT_PUTS = 0x2090
+GOT_STRLEN = 0x2098
+MESSAGE = 0x2500
+EXIT_TAIL = b"\xbf\x2a\x00\x00\x00\xb8\xe7\x00\x00\x00\x0f\x05"
+
+
+def build(n_nops, tail=EXIT_TAIL):
+    image = bytearray(0x3000)
+    image[:16] = b"\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01" + bytes(9)
+    nph = 6
+    struct.pack_into("<HHIQQQIHHHHHH", image, 16, 3, 62, 1, CODE, 64, 0, 0, 64, 56, nph, 0, 0, 0)
+
+    def phdr(index, p_type, flags, offset, vaddr, filesz, memsz, align):
+        struct.pack_into("<IIQQQQQQ", image, 64 + index * 56, p_type, flags, offset, vaddr, vaddr, filesz, memsz, align)
+
+    interpreter = b"/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2\0"
+    image[0x200:0x200 + len(interpreter)] = interpreter
+    phdr(0, 6, 4, 64, 64, nph * 56, nph * 56, 8)
+    phdr(1, 3, 4, 0x200, 0x200, len(interpreter), len(interpreter), 1)
+    phdr(5, 0x6474e551, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0x10)
+    message = b"hello from AnyPS5\0"
+    image[MESSAGE:MESSAGE + len(message)] = message
+    lea = b"\x48\x8d\x3d" + struct.pack("<i", MESSAGE - (CODE + 7))
+    call = b"\xff\x15" + struct.pack("<i", GOT_PUTS - (CODE + 13))
+    code = lea + call + tail + b"\x90" * n_nops
+    image[CODE:CODE + len(code)] = code
+    phdr(2, 1, 5, 0, 0x0000, 0x2000, 0x2000, 0x1000)
+    phdr(3, 1, 6, 0x2000, 0x2000, 0x1000, 0x1000, 0x1000)
+    struct.pack_into("<Q", image, GOT_PUTS, 0)
+    struct.pack_into("<Q", image, GOT_STRLEN, 0)
+    strtab = b"\0libc.so.6\0puts\0strlen\0"
+    image[0x2100:0x2100 + len(strtab)] = strtab
+    struct.pack_into("<IBBHQQ", image, 0x2120, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
+    struct.pack_into("<IBBHQQ", image, 0x2138, 11, 0x12, 0, 0, 0, 0)
+    struct.pack_into("<IBBHQQ", image, 0x2150, 16, 0x12, 0, 0, 0, 0)
+    struct.pack_into("<IIIII", image, 0x2168, 1, 3, 1, 2, 0)
+    struct.pack_into("<QQq", image, 0x2194, GOT_PUTS, (1 << 32) | 6, 0)
+    struct.pack_into("<QQq", image, 0x21ac, GOT_STRLEN, (2 << 32) | 6, 0)
+    tags = [(1, 1), (5, 0x2100), (10, len(strtab)), (6, 0x2120), (11, 24),
+            (4, 0x2168), (7, 0x2194), (8, 48), (9, 24), (0, 0)]
+    for index, tag in enumerate(tags):
+        struct.pack_into("<qQ", image, 0x2200 + index * 16, *tag)
+    phdr(4, 2, 6, 0x2200, 0x2200, len(tags) * 16, len(tags) * 16, 8)
+    return bytes(image)
+
+
+def run(relinker, source, output):
+    return subprocess.run(
+        [str(relinker), "--skip-sce-module", "--skip-syscall-check", "unused-filter=1",
+         str(source), str(output)],
+        capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=20)
+
+
+def main():
+    relinker = Path(sys.argv[1]).resolve()
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="anyps5-unused-filter-fallthrough-") as directory:
+        work = Path(directory)
+        for n_nops in (0, 1, 2, 3, 4):
+            source = work / f"tail-{n_nops}.elf"
+            output = work / f"tail-{n_nops}.out"
+            source.write_bytes(build(n_nops))
+            result = run(relinker, source, output)
+            assert result.returncode == 0 and output.exists(), (n_nops, result.returncode, result.stdout, result.stderr)
+            assert "CFG/GOT filtering: 2 -> 1; filtered=1" in result.stdout, (n_nops, result.stdout)
+
+        entry_tail = bytearray(build(0))
+        struct.pack_into("<Q", entry_tail, 24, 0x1fff)
+        source = work / "entry-tail.elf"
+        output = work / "entry-tail.out"
+        source.write_bytes(entry_tail)
+        result = run(relinker, source, output)
+        assert result.returncode == 2 and not output.exists(), (result.returncode, result.stdout, result.stderr)
+        assert "Instruction truncated before ModRM byte" in result.stderr, result.stderr
+
+        jump_tail = bytearray(build(0))
+        jump_tail[CODE:CODE + 5] = b"\xe9" + struct.pack("<i", 0x1fff - (CODE + 5))
+        source = work / "jump-tail.elf"
+        output = work / "jump-tail.out"
+        source.write_bytes(jump_tail)
+        result = run(relinker, source, output)
+        assert result.returncode == 2 and not output.exists(), (result.returncode, result.stdout, result.stderr)
+        assert "Instruction truncated before ModRM byte" in result.stderr, result.stderr
+
+        source = work / "zero-immediate.elf"
+        output = work / "zero-immediate.out"
+        source.write_bytes(build(0, tail=b"\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00"))
+        result = run(relinker, source, output)
+        assert result.returncode == 0 and output.exists(), (result.returncode, result.stdout, result.stderr)
+        assert "CFG/GOT filtering: 2 -> 1; filtered=1" in result.stdout, result.stdout
+    print("Unused filter fallthrough padding tests passed")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()