diff --git a/lld/ELF/Writer.cpp b/lld/ELF/Writer.cpp
--- a/lld/ELF/Writer.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/Writer.cpp
@@ -2272,7 +2272,8 @@
   // The first section in a PT_LOAD has to have congruent offset and address
   // module the page size.
   if (os->ptLoad && os->ptLoad->firstSec == os) {
-    uint64_t alignment = std::max<uint64_t>(os->alignment, config->maxPageSize);
+    uint64_t alignment =
+        std::max<uint64_t>(os->ptLoad->p_align, config->maxPageSize);
     return alignTo(off, alignment, os->addr);
   }
 
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/nmagic.s b/lld/test/ELF/nmagic.s
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/nmagic.s
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# Verify that .rodata is aligned to a 8 byte boundary.
+
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=i386-unknown-linux %s -o %t.o
+# RUN: ld.lld %t.o -o %t.exe -N -Ttext 0
+# RUN: llvm-readelf -section-headers %t.exe | FileCheck %s
+
+# CHECK: [ 0]           NULL     00000000 000000 000000 00      0   0  0
+# CHECK: [ 1] .text     PROGBITS 00000000 000098 000001 00  AX  0   0  4
+# CHECK: [ 2] .rodata   PROGBITS 00000008 0000a0 000008 00   A  0   0  8
+# CHECK: [ 3] .comment  PROGBITS 00000000 0000a8 000008 01  MS  0   0  1
+# CHECK: [ 4] .symtab   SYMTAB   00000000 0000b0 000020 10      6   1  4
+# CHECK: [ 5] .shstrtab STRTAB   00000000 0000d0 000032 00      0   0  1
+# CHECK: [ 6] .strtab   STRTAB   00000000 000102 000008 00      0   0  1
+
+.globl _start
+.text
+_start:
+  ret
+
+.rodata
+.align 8
+.quad 42