diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 6e55520a2afe65..57ca4a17749bab 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -592,6 +592,20 @@ sub hash_show_words {
 	["__ATTR", 2],
 );
 
+our $api_defines = qr{(?x:
+	_ATFILE_SOURCE|
+	_BSD_SOURCE|
+	_DEFAULT_SOURCE
+	_GNU_SOURCE|
+	_ISOC11_SOURCE|
+	_ISOC99_SOURCE|
+	_POSIX_C_SOURCE|
+	_POSIX_SOURCE|
+	_SVID_SOURCE|
+	_XOPEN_SOURCE|
+	_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED|
+)};
+
 my $word_pattern = '\b[A-Z]?[a-z]{2,}\b';
 
 #Create a search pattern for all these functions to speed up a loop below
@@ -6527,6 +6541,13 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
+# check for feature test macros that request C library API extensions, violating rules A.4 and A.5
+
+		if ($line =~ /#\s*define\s+$api_defines/) {
+			ERROR("API_DEFINE",
+			      "do not specify a non-Zephyr API for libc\n" . "$here$rawline\n");
+		}
+
 # check for IS_ENABLED() without CONFIG_<FOO> ($rawline for comments too)
 		if ($rawline =~ /\bIS_ENABLED\s*\(\s*(\w+)\s*\)/ && $1 !~ /^CONFIG_/) {
 			WARN("IS_ENABLED_CONFIG",