diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 2508a4f238a3..080809560072 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2578,6 +2578,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(clone, unsigned long, clone_flags, unsigned long, newsp,
 #endif
 
 #ifdef __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
+
+/*
+ * copy_thread implementations handle CLONE_SETTLS by reading the TLS value from
+ * the registers containing the syscall arguments for clone. This doesn't work
+ * with clone3 since the TLS value is passed in clone_args instead.
+ */
+#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
+#error clone3 requires copy_thread_tls support in arch
+#endif
+
 noinline static int copy_clone_args_from_user(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs,
 					      struct clone_args __user *uargs,
 					      size_t usize)