diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng/0001-test-float-Make-variables-global.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng/0001-test-float-Make-variables-global.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2e598ca4f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng/0001-test-float-Make-variables-global.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+From 958a86069c8d0149969b5c32212a28009c4a9ded Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 23:18:18 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH] test-float: Make variables global
+
+Latest clang ( clang 16+ ) is able to optimize everything out when -O2 is used and as
+a result build succeeds and test output comes out to be wrong. Therefore
+make the variables global, so clang does not optimize away the functions
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/commit/e299eb60a3a029e975304cc43045aea6ab1fad70]
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+ test/test-float.c | 3 +--
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/test/test-float.c b/test/test-float.c
+index d2800cd3..ad5503c3 100644
+--- a/test/test-float.c
++++ b/test/test-float.c
+@@ -61,10 +61,9 @@
+ /* Avoid implicit int in the definition of test even if FLOAT is not known. */
+ typedef FLOAT float_type;
+ 
++FLOAT a = 0.0, b = 0.0, c = 0.0, d = 0.0;
+ static float_type HOT OPTIMIZE3 test(void)
+ {
+-	FLOAT a = 0.0, b = 0.0, c = 0.0, d = 0.0;
+-
+ 	float_ops(FLOAT, a, b, c, d, sin, cos);
+ 	float_ops(FLOAT, a, b, c, d, sinl, cosl);
+ 
+-- 
+2.39.1
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng_0.15.02.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng_0.15.02.bb
index c554bb403e..75400f589e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng_0.15.02.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/stress-ng/stress-ng_0.15.02.bb
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
+           file://0001-test-float-Make-variables-global.patch \
            file://0001-Pass-LD_GOLD-1-via-makefile-to-enable-gold-linker.patch"
 SRCREV = "4164f6842c712c2d9a13619c3c70fd35d8d02cdb"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"