diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ffd7a912fc46..19efe04b398c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ export KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS := $(head-y) $(init-y) $(core-y) $(libs-y2) \
 export KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS := $(libs-y1)
 export KBUILD_LDS          := arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/vmlinux.lds
 export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
-# used by scripts/package/Makefile
+# used by scripts/Makefile.package
 export KBUILD_ALLDIRS := $(sort $(filter-out arch/%,$(vmlinux-alldirs)) LICENSES arch include scripts tools)
 
 vmlinux-deps := $(KBUILD_LDS) $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS) $(KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS)
diff --git a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
index aff79e461fc9..5a0fc0b0403a 100755
--- a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
+++ b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
@@ -71,10 +71,13 @@ done | cpio --quiet -pd $cpio_dir >/dev/null 2>&1
 find $cpio_dir -type f -print0 |
 	xargs -0 -P8 -n1 perl -pi -e 'BEGIN {undef $/;}; s/\/\*((?!SPDX).)*?\*\///smg;'
 
-# Create archive and try to normalize metadata for reproducibility
-tar "${KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP:+--mtime=$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP}" \
-    --owner=0 --group=0 --sort=name --numeric-owner \
-    -Jcf $tarfile -C $cpio_dir/ . > /dev/null
+# Create archive and try to normalize metadata for reproducibility.
+# For compatibility with older versions of tar, files are fed to tar
+# pre-sorted, as --sort=name might not be available.
+find $cpio_dir -printf "./%P\n" | LC_ALL=C sort | \
+    tar "${KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP:+--mtime=$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP}" \
+    --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner --no-recursion \
+    -Jcf $tarfile -C $cpio_dir/ -T - > /dev/null
 
 echo "$src_files_md5" >  kernel/kheaders.md5
 echo "$obj_files_md5" >> kernel/kheaders.md5
diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 220dae0db3f1..a2998b118ef9 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ scm_version()
 	# Check for mercurial and a mercurial repo.
 	if test -d .hg && hgid=`hg id 2>/dev/null`; then
 		# Do we have an tagged version?  If so, latesttagdistance == 1
-		if [ "`hg log -r . --template '{latesttagdistance}'`" == "1" ]; then
+		if [ "`hg log -r . --template '{latesttagdistance}'`" = "1" ]; then
 			id=`hg log -r . --template '{latesttag}'`
 			printf '%s%s' -hg "$id"
 		else