diff --git a/lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp b/lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp
index 9eb9bcac46a..1189b73a08a 100644
--- a/lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp
+++ b/lib/MC/ELFObjectWriter.cpp
@@ -515,12 +515,9 @@ void ELFObjectWriterImpl::RecordRelocation(const MCAssembler &Asm,
     }
 
     if (Base) {
-      if (F && !SD.isExternal()) {
+      if (F && (!Symbol->isInSection() || SD.isCommon()) && !SD.isExternal()) {
         Index = F->getParent()->getOrdinal() + LocalSymbolData.size() + 1;
-
-        MCSectionData *FSD = F->getParent();
-        // Offset of the symbol in the section
-        Value += Layout.getSymbolAddress(&SD) - Layout.getSectionAddress(FSD);
+        Value += Layout.getSymbolAddress(&SD);
       } else
         Index = getSymbolIndexInSymbolTable(Asm, Symbol);
       if (Base != &SD)
diff --git a/test/MC/ELF/local-reloc.s b/test/MC/ELF/local-reloc.s
deleted file mode 100644
index e5a3d4cce50..00000000000
--- a/test/MC/ELF/local-reloc.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple x86_64-pc-linux-gnu %s -o - | elf-dump  --dump-section-data | FileCheck  %s
-
-// Test that relocations with local symbols are represented as relocations
-// with the section. They should be equivalent, but gas behaves like this.
-
-	movl	foo, %r14d
-foo:
-
-// Section number 1 is .text
-// CHECK:        # Section 1
-// CHECK-next:  (('sh_name', 1) # '.text'
-
-
-// Relocation refers to symbol number 2
-// CHECK:      ('_relocations', [
-// CHECK-NEXT:  # Relocation 0
-// CHECK-NEXT:   (('r_offset',
-// CHECK-NEXT:    ('r_sym', 2)
-// CHECK-NEXT:    ('r_type',
-// CHECK-NEXT:    ('r_addend',
-// CHECK-NEXT:   ),
-// CHECK-NEXT:  ])
-
-// Symbol number 2 is section number 1
-// CHECK:    # Symbol 2
-// CHECK-NEXT:    (('st_name', 0) # ''
-// CHECK-NEXT:     ('st_bind', 0)
-// CHECK-NEXT:     ('st_type', 3)
-// CHECK-NEXT:     ('st_other', 0)
-// CHECK-NEXT:     ('st_shndx', 1)
-// CHECK-NEXT:     ('st_value', 0)
-// CHECK-NEXT:     ('st_size', 0)