3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 5fd60af76d98..ef592e993e92 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ dtc-tmp = $(subst $(comma),_,$(dot-target).dts.tmp)
 size_append = printf $(shell                                            \
 dec_size=0;                                                             \
 for F in $1; do                                                         \
-        fsize=$$(stat -c "%s" $$F);                                     \
+        fsize=$$($(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/file-size.sh $$F);  \
         dec_size=$$(expr $$dec_size + $$fsize);                         \
 done;                                                                   \
 printf "%08x\n" $$dec_size |                                            \
diff --git a/scripts/file-size.sh b/scripts/file-size.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..7eb7423416b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/file-size.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+set -- $(ls -dn "$1")
+printf '%s\n' "$5"
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 08ca08e9105c..9045823c7be7 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ if [ -n "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS}" ]; then
         kallsyms .tmp_vmlinux2 .tmp_kallsyms2.o
 
         # step 3
-        size1=$(stat -c "%s" .tmp_kallsyms1.o)
-        size2=$(stat -c "%s" .tmp_kallsyms2.o)
+        size1=$(${CONFIG_SHELL} "${srctree}/scripts/file-size.sh" .tmp_kallsyms1.o)
+        size2=$(${CONFIG_SHELL} "${srctree}/scripts/file-size.sh" .tmp_kallsyms2.o)
 
         if [ $size1 -ne $size2 ] || [ -n "${KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS}" ]; then
                 kallsymso=.tmp_kallsyms3.o