diff --git a/include/llvm/Object/ELFObjectFile.h b/include/llvm/Object/ELFObjectFile.h
index 82e4aa459a7..4e9e81a7b9e 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Object/ELFObjectFile.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Object/ELFObjectFile.h
@@ -709,8 +709,9 @@ bool ELFObjectFile<ELFT>::isSectionText(DataRefImpl Sec) const {
 template <class ELFT>
 bool ELFObjectFile<ELFT>::isSectionData(DataRefImpl Sec) const {
   const Elf_Shdr *EShdr = getSection(Sec);
-  return EShdr->sh_flags & (ELF::SHF_ALLOC | ELF::SHF_WRITE) &&
-         EShdr->sh_type == ELF::SHT_PROGBITS;
+  return EShdr->sh_type == ELF::SHT_PROGBITS &&
+         EShdr->sh_flags & ELF::SHF_ALLOC &&
+         !(EShdr->sh_flags & ELF::SHF_EXECINSTR);
 }
 
 template <class ELFT>
diff --git a/test/Object/objdump-sectionheaders.test b/test/Object/objdump-sectionheaders.test
index bc2478cea2f..efdd6bb5fc9 100644
--- a/test/Object/objdump-sectionheaders.test
+++ b/test/Object/objdump-sectionheaders.test
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 ; CHECK: Sections:
 ; CHECK: Idx Name          Size      Address          Type
 ; CHECK:   0               00000000 0000000000000000
-; CHECK:   1 .text         00000026 0000000000000000 TEXT DATA
+; CHECK:   1 .text         00000026 0000000000000000 TEXT
 ; CHECK:   2 .rodata.str1.1 0000000d 0000000000000026 DATA
 ; CHECK:   3 .note.GNU-stack 00000000 0000000000000033
 ; CHECK:   4 .rela.text    00000048 0000000000000038