diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
index 4ebaeb92c97..c203f2f8f11 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ do_install_ptest () {
         rm -rf ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testsuite/wget
 	sort ${B}/.config > ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/.config
 	ln -s ${base_bindir}/busybox   ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/busybox
+	sed -i -e 's|LIBC="<libc>"|LIBC=${TCLIBC}|g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
 }
 
 inherit update-alternatives
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-busybox-Add-awk-gsub-erroneous-word-start-match-test.patch b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-busybox-Add-awk-gsub-erroneous-word-start-match-test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..18e57a87be4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-busybox-Add-awk-gsub-erroneous-word-start-match-test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From 7ee04187bd59acc922982fb49e76ba6c39dd8a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 08:36:54 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] busybox: Add awk gsub erroneous word start match test to know fails on musl
+
+Musl does not implement this BSD extension REG_STARTEND and the test states
+that it will fail without this extention, therefore guard it with SKIP_KNOWN_BUGS
+so it can be ignored.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2025-July/091623.html]
+Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
+---
+ testsuite/awk.tests | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/testsuite/awk.tests b/testsuite/awk.tests
+index be25f6696..c56e217e8 100755
+--- a/testsuite/awk.tests
++++ b/testsuite/awk.tests
+@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ b
+ # Currently we use REG_STARTEND ("This flag is a BSD extension, not present in POSIX")
+ # to implement the code to handle this correctly, but if your libc has no REG_STARTEND,
+ # the alternative code mishandles this case.
+-testing 'awk gsub erroneous word start match' \
++test x"$LIBC" != x"musl" && testing 'awk gsub erroneous word start match' \
+ 	"awk 'BEGIN { a=\"abc\"; gsub(/\<b*/,\"\",a); print a }'" \
+ 	'abc\n' \
+ 	'' ''
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.37.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.37.0.bb
index 9f7ded3354d..bec25348b82 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.37.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.37.0.bb
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ SRC_URI = "https://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-${PV}.tar.bz2;name=tarball \
            file://0003-start-stop-false.patch \
            file://0001-archival-disallow-path-traversals-CVE-2023-39810.patch \
            file://0001-hwclock-Check-for-SYS_settimeofday-before-calling-sy.patch \
+           file://0001-busybox-Add-awk-gsub-erroneous-word-start-match-test.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = " file://musl.cfg"
 SRC_URI:append:x86-64 = " file://sha_accel.cfg"
+
 SRC_URI[tarball.sha256sum] = "3311dff32e746499f4df0d5df04d7eb396382d7e108bb9250e7b519b837043a4"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/run-ptest
index 76873c9de20..957af36099d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/run-ptest
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ current_path=$(readlink -f $0)
 export bindir=$(dirname $current_path)
 export PATH=$bindir/bin:$PATH
 export SKIP_KNOWN_BUGS=1
-
+export LIBC="<libc>"
 cd testsuite || exit 1
 LANG=C.UTF-8 ./runtest -v | sed -r 's/^(SKIPPED|UNTESTED):/SKIP:/'