Comment # 5 on bug 1199925 from Fabian Vogt

You can avoid the executable stack with

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/kvm/Makefile b/testcases/kernel/kvm/Makefile
index 69a9946fe0f3..adab569528b9 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/kvm/Makefile
+++ b/testcases/kernel/kvm/Makefile
@@ -50,11 +50,11 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/include/mk/generic_leaf_target.mk
 ifdef VERBOSE
        $(CC) $(GUEST_CPPFLAGS) $(GUEST_CFLAGS) $(GUEST_LDFLAGS) -o
$*-payload.elf $^ $(GUEST_LDLIBS)
        objcopy -O binary -j .init.boot -j .text -j .data -j .init -j
.preinit_array -j .init_array --gap-fill=0 $*-payload.elf $*-payload.bin
-       ld -r -T $(abs_srcdir)/linker/payload.lds --oformat=$(BIN_FORMAT) -o $@
$*-payload.bin
+       ld -z noexecstack -r -T $(abs_srcdir)/linker/payload.lds
--oformat=$(BIN_FORMAT) -o $@ $*-payload.bin
 else
        @$(CC) $(GUEST_CPPFLAGS) $(GUEST_CFLAGS) $(GUEST_LDFLAGS) -o
$*-payload.elf $^ $(GUEST_LDLIBS)
        @objcopy -O binary -j .init.boot -j .text -j .data -j .init -j
.preinit_array -j .init_array --gap-fill=0 $*-payload.elf $*-payload.bin
-       @ld -r -T $(abs_srcdir)/linker/payload.lds --oformat=$(BIN_FORMAT) -o
$@ $*-payload.bin
+       @ld -z noexecstack -r -T $(abs_srcdir)/linker/payload.lds
--oformat=$(BIN_FORMAT) -o $@ $*-payload.bin
        @echo KVM_CC $(target_rel_dir)$@
 endif
        @rm $*-payload.elf $*-payload.bin