diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 498b6c5cee0f..7d9032bf47c5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ OBJDUMP		= $(CROSS_COMPILE)objdump
 LEX		= flex
 YACC		= bison
 AWK		= awk
-GENKSYMS	= scripts/genksyms/genksyms
 INSTALLKERNEL  := installkernel
 DEPMOD		= /sbin/depmod
 PERL		= perl
@@ -443,7 +442,7 @@ GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS :=
 
 export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC
 export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS
-export MAKE LEX YACC AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE
+export MAKE LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 UTS_MACHINE
 export HOSTCXX KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
 
 export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS KBUILD_LDFLAGS
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index b803233327d0..850b611f4aba 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ $(obj)/%.i: $(src)/%.c FORCE
 # These mirror gensymtypes_S and co below, keep them in synch.
 cmd_gensymtypes_c =                                                         \
     $(CPP) -D__GENKSYMS__ $(c_flags) $< |                                   \
-    $(GENKSYMS) $(if $(1), -T $(2))                                         \
+    scripts/genksyms/genksyms $(if $(1), -T $(2))                           \
      $(patsubst y,-R,$(CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS))                             \
      $(if $(KBUILD_PRESERVE),-p)                                            \
      -r $(firstword $(wildcard $(2:.symtypes=.symref) /dev/null))
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ cmd_gensymtypes_S =                                                         \
      grep "\<___EXPORT_SYMBOL\>" |                                          \
      sed 's/.*___EXPORT_SYMBOL[[:space:]]*\([a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)[[:space:]]*,.*/EXPORT_SYMBOL(\1);/' ; } | \
     $(CPP) -D__GENKSYMS__ $(c_flags) -xc - |                                \
-    $(GENKSYMS) $(if $(1), -T $(2))                                         \
+    scripts/genksyms/genksyms $(if $(1), -T $(2))                           \
      $(patsubst y,-R,$(CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS))                             \
      $(if $(KBUILD_PRESERVE),-p)                                            \
      -r $(firstword $(wildcard $(2:.symtypes=.symref) /dev/null))