diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modsign b/scripts/Makefile.modsign
index da56aa78d245..d7325cefe709 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modsign
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modsign
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ __modsign:
 
 include scripts/Kbuild.include
 
-__modules := $(sort $(shell grep -h '\.ko$$' /dev/null $(wildcard $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod)))
-modules := $(patsubst %.o,%.ko,$(wildcard $(__modules:.ko=.o)))
+modules := $(sort $(shell cat modules.order))
 
 PHONY += $(modules)
 __modsign: $(modules)