v2.27: segfault on armv7h on input in 'binary' format

[redfish]

Hit a segfault on an armv7h board:

$ touch foo.dat
$ /usr/bin/ld -r -b binary -o /tmp/foo.o foo.dat
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

(gdb) bt
#0  0xb6f2ca94 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libbfd-2.27.so
#1  0xb6f66ad0 in bfd_elf_final_link () from /usr/lib/libbfd-2.27.so

Also segfaults for a non-empty input file in 'binary' format,
but not including it, since reproduced on empty file.

The above works fine on i686 (same ld version).
This problem appeared after a system update.

$ ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.27

ld from binutils 2.27-1 from Arch Linux ARM distro.
Build details:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/master/core/binutils/PKGBUILD
Patch applied:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/master/core/binutils/binutils-e9c1bdad.patch

$ uname -a
Linux bmsyncarm 4.4.8-std-1 #1 SMP Mon Apr 25 17:18:53 UTC 2016 armv7l
GNU/Linux

Please let me know if more information is needed. Thank you.