diff --git a/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk b/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
index 0f204bcf79..a7b57459f1 100644
--- a/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
+++ b/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_KEYUTILS),y)
 STRESS_NG_DEPENDENCIES += keyutils
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC),y)
+STRESS_NG_MAKE_FLAGS += LDFLAGS_EXTRA=-latomic
+endif
+
 define STRESS_NG_BUILD_CMDS
 	$(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) $(MAKE) -C $(@D) $(STRESS_NG_MAKE_FLAGS)
 endef