diff --git a/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk b/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
index a7b57459f1..24ec4cb515 100644
--- a/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
+++ b/package/stress-ng/stress-ng.mk
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ STRESS_NG_DEPENDENCIES += keyutils
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC),y)
-STRESS_NG_MAKE_FLAGS += LDFLAGS_EXTRA=-latomic
+STRESS_NG_MAKE_FLAGS += LDFLAGS="$(TARGET_LDFLAGS) -latomic"
 endif
 
 define STRESS_NG_BUILD_CMDS