}
                  else
                    {
+                     bfd_byte *contents;
+
                      if (rel.r_offset >= sec->size)
                        abort ();
+
+                     if (elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents
+                         != NULL)
+                       contents
+                         = elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents;
+                     else
+                       {
+                         if (!bfd_malloc_and_get_section (sec->owner,
+                                                          sec,
+                                                          &contents))
+                           info->callbacks->einfo
+                             /* xgettext:c-format */
+                             (_("%F%P: %pB: failed to allocate memory for section `%pA'\n"),
+                              info->output_bfd, sec);
+
+                         /* Cache the section contents for
+                            elf_link_input_bfd.  */
+                         elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents
+                           = contents;
+                       }
                      htab->elf_write_addend
                        (info->output_bfd, outrel->r_addend,
-                        (elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents
-                         + rel.r_offset));
+                        contents + rel.r_offset);
                    }
                }
            }
 
--- /dev/null
+#source: dt-relr-2.s
+#ld: -e _start -pie --no-keep-memory $DT_RELR_LDFLAGS
+#readelf: -rW -d
+#target: [supports_dt_relr]
+
+#...
+ 0x[0-9a-f]+ \(RELR\)    +0x[0-9a-f]+
+ 0x[0-9a-f]+ \(RELRSZ\)  +(8|16) \(bytes\)
+ 0x[0-9a-f]+ \(RELRENT\) +(4|8) \(bytes\)
+#...
+Relocation section '\.rel(a|)\.dyn' at offset 0x[0-9a-f]+ contains 1 entry:
+#...
+[0-9a-f]+ +[0-9a-f]+ +R_.*_(RELATIVE|UADDR.*) .*
+#...
+Relocation section '\.relr\.dyn' at offset 0x[0-9a-f]+ contains 2 entries:
+  4 offsets
+#pass