diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 3bd64ab16f..7f31ff58c9 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2015-07-18  Kevin Buettner  <kevinb@redhat.com>
+
+	* dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_locate_sections): Allow has_section_at_zero
+	to be set for SEC_ALLOC sections too.
+
 2015-07-17  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>
 
 	* Makefile.in (HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add
diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2read.c b/gdb/dwarf2read.c
index 91c6a8feee..f44095683f 100644
--- a/gdb/dwarf2read.c
+++ b/gdb/dwarf2read.c
@@ -2241,7 +2241,7 @@ dwarf2_locate_sections (bfd *abfd, asection *sectp, void *vnames)
       dwarf2_per_objfile->gdb_index.size = bfd_get_section_size (sectp);
     }
 
-  if ((bfd_get_section_flags (abfd, sectp) & SEC_LOAD)
+  if ((bfd_get_section_flags (abfd, sectp) & (SEC_LOAD | SEC_ALLOC))
       && bfd_section_vma (abfd, sectp) == 0)
     dwarf2_per_objfile->has_section_at_zero = 1;
 }