diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modsign b/scripts/Makefile.modsign
index abfda626dbad..b6ac7084da79 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modsign
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modsign
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ __modsign:
 
 include scripts/Kbuild.include
 
-__modules := $(sort $(shell grep -h '\.ko' /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
+__modules := $(sort $(shell grep -h '\.ko$$' /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
 modules := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko,$(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))
 
 PHONY += $(modules)