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>
[nathan: use cc-option for 6.6 and older, as those trees support back to
         clang-11]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7f7c67db948c..3af5d6bb5632 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1114,6 +1114,11 @@ endif
 KBUILD_USERCFLAGS  += $(filter -m32 -m64 --target=%, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
 KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS += $(filter -m32 -m64 --target=%, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
 
+# userspace programs are linked via the compiler, use the correct linker
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG)$(CONFIG_LD_IS_LLD),yy)
+KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS += $(call cc-option, --ld-path=$(LD))
+endif
+
 # make the checker run with the right architecture
 CHECKFLAGS += --arch=$(ARCH)