diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index 4c734bba6e90..2fe6f2828d37 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -54,9 +54,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
 # globally built with -Wcast-function-type.
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wcast-function-type)
 
-# Another good warning that we'll want to enable eventually
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, restrict)
-
 # The allocators already balk at large sizes, so silence the compiler
 # warnings for bounds checks involving those possible values. While
 # -Wno-alloc-size-larger-than would normally be used here, earlier versions
@@ -99,6 +96,7 @@ ifneq ($(findstring 1, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wextra -Wunused -Wno-unused-parameter
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-declarations
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wrestrict)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-format-attribute
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wmissing-prototypes
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wold-style-definition
@@ -120,6 +118,7 @@ else
 # Suppress them by using -Wno... except for W=1.
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-const-variable)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, restrict)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, packed-not-aligned)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-overflow)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-truncation)