diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/deflate_xip_data.sh b/arch/arm/boot/deflate_xip_data.sh
index 1189598a25eb..07adfc734fa3 100755
--- a/arch/arm/boot/deflate_xip_data.sh
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/deflate_xip_data.sh
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ data_start=$(($__data_loc - $base_offset))
 data_end=$(($_edata_loc - $base_offset))
 
 # Make sure data occupies the last part of the file.
-file_end=$(stat -c "%s" "$XIPIMAGE")
+file_end=$(${CONFIG_SHELL} "${srctree}/scripts/file-size.sh" "$XIPIMAGE")
 if [ "$file_end" != "$data_end" ]; then
 	printf "end of xipImage doesn't match with _edata_loc (%#x vs %#x)\n" \
 	       $(($file_end + $base_offset)) $_edata_loc 2>&1
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index 76fe3ccfd381..f9141eaec6ff 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ vmz="$tmpdir/`basename \"$kernel\"`.$ext"
 
 # Calculate the vmlinux.strip size
 ${CROSS}objcopy $objflags "$kernel" "$vmz.$$"
-strip_size=$(stat -c %s $vmz.$$)
+strip_size=$(${CONFIG_SHELL} "${srctree}/scripts/file-size.sh" "$vmz.$$")
 
 if [ -z "$cacheit" -o ! -f "$vmz$compression" -o "$vmz$compression" -ot "$kernel" ]; then
     # recompress the image if we need to
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