diff --git a/common-user/safe-syscall.S b/common-user/safe-syscall.S
index 74f7e35694..2f714cfbe8 100644
--- a/common-user/safe-syscall.S
+++ b/common-user/safe-syscall.S
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@
  * assembly needs an executable stack and the whole QEMU binary will
  * needlessly end up with one. This should be the last thing in this file.
  */
-#if defined(__linux__) && defined(__ELF__)
+#if defined(__ELF__)
 .section        .note.GNU-stack, "", %progbits
 #endif