The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 936599ca514973d44a766b7376c6bbdc96b6a8cc # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025082104-cosigner-parabola-3836@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 936599ca514973d44a766b7376c6bbdc96b6a8cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20Wei=C3=9Fschuh?= thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:47:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: userprogs: use correct linker when mixing clang and GNU ld MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The userprogs infrastructure does not expect clang being used with GNU ld and in that case uses /usr/bin/ld for linking, not the configured $(LD). This fallback is problematic as it will break when cross-compiling. Mixing clang and GNU ld is used for example when building for SPARC64, as ld.lld is not sufficient; see Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst.
Relax the check around --ld-path so it gets used for all linkers.
Fixes: dfc1b168a8c4 ("kbuild: userprogs: use correct lld when linking through clang") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index ba0827a1fccd..f4009f7238c7 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ KBUILD_USERCFLAGS += $(filter -m32 -m64 --target=%, $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS += $(filter -m32 -m64 --target=%, $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
# userspace programs are linked via the compiler, use the correct linker -ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG)$(CONFIG_LD_IS_LLD),yy) +ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS += --ld-path=$(LD) endif