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kbuild: userprogs: use correct lld when linking through clang
authorThomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:27:54 +0000 (08:27 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:02:12 +0000 (13:02 +0100)
commit06af63ce57ab0fbf0905f5a512b39189c4f9399d
treef5d4b405754ca14d1f4d5bca47e1fc726ce6b38d
parent395011ee82b6f6db70277f3db661def97e20ef6b
kbuild: userprogs: use correct lld when linking through clang

commit dfc1b168a8c4b376fa222b27b97c2c4ad4b786e1 upstream.

The userprog infrastructure links objects files through $(CC).
Either explicitly by manually calling $(CC) on multiple object files or
implicitly by directly compiling a source file to an executable.
The documentation at Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst indicates that ld.lld
would be used for linking if LLVM=1 is specified.
However clang instead will use either a globally installed cross linker
from $PATH called ${target}-ld or fall back to the system linker, which
probably does not support crosslinking.
For the normal kernel build this is not an issue because the linker is
always executed directly, without the compiler being involved.

Explicitly pass --ld-path to clang so $(LD) is respected.
As clang 13.0.1 is required to build the kernel, this option is available.

Fixes: 7f3a59db274c ("kbuild: add infrastructure to build userspace programs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # needs wrapping in $(cc-option) for < 6.9
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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