diff --git a/tools/thermal/tmon/Makefile b/tools/thermal/tmon/Makefile
index 3a961e998281..5777bc78173f 100644
--- a/tools/thermal/tmon/Makefile
+++ b/tools/thermal/tmon/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
+# We need this for the "cc-option" macro.
+include ../../../scripts/Kbuild.include
+
 VERSION = 1.0
 
 BINDIR=usr/bin
 WARNFLAGS=-Wall -Wshadow -W -Wformat -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int
-CFLAGS+= -O1 ${WARNFLAGS} -fstack-protector
+CFLAGS+= -O1 ${WARNFLAGS}
+# Add "-fstack-protector" only if toolchain supports it.
+CFLAGS+= $(call cc-option,-fstack-protector)
 CC=$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
 
 CFLAGS+=-D VERSION=\"$(VERSION)\"