diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
index 2d8565bd5541..4714206aad59 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/kernel.bbclass
@@ -612,6 +612,8 @@ do_shared_workdir () {
 		cp -r scripts/gcc-plugins ${kerneldir}/scripts
 	fi
 
+	mkdir -p ${kerneldir}/scripts/mod
+	cp scripts/mod/modpost ${kerneldir}/scripts/mod
 }
 
 # We don't need to stage anything, not the modules/firmware since those would clash with linux-firmware