diff --git a/libs/libc/tls/Kconfig b/libs/libc/tls/Kconfig
index 65627e2d49b..cd34a4e366d 100644
--- a/libs/libc/tls/Kconfig
+++ b/libs/libc/tls/Kconfig
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ menu "Thread Local Storage (TLS)"
 
 config TLS_ALIGNED
 	bool "Require stack alignment"
-	default BUILD_KERNEL
+	default BUILD_KERNEL || BUILD_PROTECTED
 	---help---
 		Aligned TLS works by fetching thread information from the beginning
 		of the stack memory allocation.  In order to do this, the memory