diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/relocs-ilp32.ld b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/relocs-ilp32.ld
index 7174aff236f189a1ae5caa94ecaf27c7ddb171b5..4ddba9141209a48c1342c4ffaf65b327d91873a8 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/relocs-ilp32.ld
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/relocs-ilp32.ld
@@ -16,4 +16,8 @@ SECTIONS
   . = 0x12340000;
   .far : { *(.far) }
   .ARM.attributes 0 : { *(.ARM.atttributes) }
+  /* Providing a .data section triggers a non-executable segment to be
+     generated, which gives somewhere else for the linker to put the TLS
+     segment without creating a RWX permissioned one. */
+  .data : { *(.data) }
 }
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/relocs.ld b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/relocs.ld
index f42176e64d30daa9949c0679ff3b0a931de46dfd..77adac8b46e01b488e68405b1291335a2dfa29fc 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/relocs.ld
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-aarch64/relocs.ld
@@ -16,4 +16,8 @@ SECTIONS
   . = 0x12340000;
   .far : { *(.far) }
   .ARM.attributes 0 : { *(.ARM.atttributes) }
+  /* Providing a .data section triggers a non-executable segment to be
+     generated, which gives somewhere else for the linker to put the TLS
+     segment without creating a RWX permissioned one. */
+  .data : { *(.data) }
 }