From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:47:37 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: kbuild: userprogs: use correct linker when mixing clang and GNU ld
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kbuild: userprogs: use correct linker when mixing clang and GNU ld

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