diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 9a5b472cda2c953cae40d2dfcbce493048ed8168..279f15a3aefaa6e9048ee93a54575a2a06004ae1 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -6028,6 +6028,7 @@ assign_file_positions_for_load_sections (bfd *abfd,
 	      hash->root.u.def.section = bfd_abs_section_ptr;
 	    }
 
+	  hash->size = bed->s->sizeof_ehdr + elf_program_header_size (abfd);
 	  hash->root.type = bfd_link_hash_defined;
 	  hash->def_regular = 1;
 	  hash->non_elf = 0;
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/aarch64-elf.exp b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/aarch64-elf.exp
index f0d2048efc37c2df3f4dfea304c7f93f8fe3a169..adb0081720a48c984e246b838d6ccd0922fa1306 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/aarch64-elf.exp
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/aarch64-elf.exp
@@ -258,6 +258,7 @@ run_dump_test_lp64 "morello-sizeless-local-syms"
 run_dump_test_lp64 "morello-sizeless-global-syms"
 run_dump_test_lp64 "morello-sizeless-got-syms"
 run_dump_test_lp64 "morello-disallow-merged-binaries"
+run_dump_test_lp64 "c64-ehdr-sized-reloc"
 
 run_dump_test_lp64 "morello-capinit"
 run_dump_test_lp64 "morello-stubs"
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/c64-ehdr-sized-reloc.d b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/c64-ehdr-sized-reloc.d
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..41c3cffa32f6bc494e1ef282319331e794b07abe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/c64-ehdr-sized-reloc.d
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#as: -march=morello+c64
+#ld: -shared
+#objdump: -dR -j .data
+
+.*:     file format .*
+
+
+Disassembly of section \.data:
+
+00000000000[[:xdigit:]]* <val>:
+	...
+			[[:xdigit:]]*: R_MORELLO_RELATIVE	\*ABS\*
+# Want to check that the size is non-zero.
+# Check that using a negative line match to a zero size.
+# In fact, when this size is zero objdump doesn't even print a line here, but
+# that just adds extra robustness to our check.
+!   .*:	00000000 	\.word	0x00000000
+   .*:	01000000 	.*
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/c64-ehdr-sized-reloc.s b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/c64-ehdr-sized-reloc.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b750cfbd499d9babd25d1a8fb0b1d573726a855
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/c64-ehdr-sized-reloc.s
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+	.data
+	.global val
+val:
+	.chericap __ehdr_start
+	.size val, .-val
+
+	.align 4
+	.text
+	.global _start
+_start:
+	ldr	c0, [c0, :got_lo12:val]