[PATCH] kbuild: userprogs: use correct linker when mixing clang and GNU ld

[Thomas Weißschuh]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Nathan, you originally proposed the check for $(CONFIG_LD_IS_LLD) [0],
could you take a look at this?

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250213175437.GA2756218@ax162/
---
 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c09766beb7eff4780574682b8ea44475fc0a5188..e300c6546c845c300edb5f0033719963c7da8f9b 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)
+ifneq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG),)
 KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS += --ld-path=$(LD)
 endif
 

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base-commit: 6832a9317eee280117cd695fa885b2b7a7a38daf
change-id: 20250723-userprogs-clang-gnu-ld-7a1c16fc852d

Best regards,
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Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>