diff --git a/src/cmd/cgo/internal/testerrors/errors_test.go b/src/cmd/cgo/internal/testerrors/errors_test.go
index 486530e186..870d05b491 100644
--- a/src/cmd/cgo/internal/testerrors/errors_test.go
+++ b/src/cmd/cgo/internal/testerrors/errors_test.go
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ func TestReportsTypeErrors(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, file := range []string{
 		"err1.go",
 		"err2.go",
+		"err5.go",
 		"issue11097a.go",
 		"issue11097b.go",
 		"issue18452.go",
diff --git a/src/cmd/cgo/internal/testerrors/testdata/err5.go b/src/cmd/cgo/internal/testerrors/testdata/err5.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..779d745ba7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cmd/cgo/internal/testerrors/testdata/err5.go
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// Copyright 2023 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package main
+
+//line /tmp/_cgo_.go:1
+//go:cgo_dynamic_linker "/elf/interp" // ERROR HERE: only allowed in cgo-generated code
+
+func main() {}
diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/noder/noder.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/noder/noder.go
index 25a6ba7c88..94071581fe 100644
--- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/noder/noder.go
+++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/noder/noder.go
@@ -333,8 +333,14 @@ func (p *noder) pragma(pos syntax.Pos, blankLine bool, text string, old syntax.P
 // contain cgo directives, and for security reasons
 // (primarily misuse of linker flags), other files are not.
 // See golang.org/issue/23672.
+// Note that cmd/go ignores files whose names start with underscore,
+// so the only _cgo_ files we will see from cmd/go are generated by cgo.
+// It's easy to bypass this check by calling the compiler directly;
+// we only protect against uses by cmd/go.
 func isCgoGeneratedFile(pos syntax.Pos) bool {
-	return strings.HasPrefix(filepath.Base(trimFilename(pos.Base())), "_cgo_")
+	// We need the absolute file, independent of //line directives,
+	// so we call pos.Base().Pos().
+	return strings.HasPrefix(filepath.Base(trimFilename(pos.Base().Pos().Base())), "_cgo_")
 }
 
 // safeArg reports whether arg is a "safe" command-line argument,