diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
index bbb876703f2b..98d471cca61e 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/gnugrep/default.nix
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   # cygwin: FAIL: multibyte-white-space
   # freebsd: FAIL mb-non-UTF8-performance
   # x86_64-darwin: fails 'stack-overflow' tests on Rosetta 2 emulator
-  doCheck = !stdenv.hostPlatform.isCygwin && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isFreeBSD && !(stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin && stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64) && !stdenv.buildPlatform.isRiscV64;
+  # aarch32: fails 'stack-overflow' when run on qemu under x86_64
+  doCheck = !stdenv.hostPlatform.isCygwin && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isFreeBSD && !(stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin && stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64) && !stdenv.buildPlatform.isRiscV64 && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch32;
 
   # On macOS, force use of mkdir -p, since Grep's fallback
   # (./install-sh) is broken.