diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index d6c81657d695..be0642126f53 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <limits.h>
-#include <stdbool.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include "modpost.h"
 #include "../../include/linux/license.h"
@@ -84,14 +83,6 @@ modpost_log(enum loglevel loglevel, const char *fmt, ...)
 		error_occurred = true;
 }
 
-static inline bool strends(const char *str, const char *postfix)
-{
-	if (strlen(str) < strlen(postfix))
-		return false;
-
-	return strcmp(str + strlen(str) - strlen(postfix), postfix) == 0;
-}
-
 void *do_nofail(void *ptr, const char *expr)
 {
 	if (!ptr)
@@ -1988,6 +1979,10 @@ static char *remove_dot(char *s)
 		size_t m = strspn(s + n + 1, "0123456789");
 		if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0))
 			s[n] = 0;
+
+		/* strip trailing .lto */
+		if (strends(s, ".lto"))
+			s[strlen(s) - 4] = '\0';
 	}
 	return s;
 }
@@ -2011,6 +2006,9 @@ static void read_symbols(const char *modname)
 		/* strip trailing .o */
 		tmp = NOFAIL(strdup(modname));
 		tmp[strlen(tmp) - 2] = '\0';
+		/* strip trailing .lto */
+		if (strends(tmp, ".lto"))
+			tmp[strlen(tmp) - 4] = '\0';
 		mod = new_module(tmp);
 		free(tmp);
 	}
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.h b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
index e6f46eee0af0..1f76eea7cfde 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.h
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
@@ -180,6 +181,14 @@ static inline unsigned int get_secindex(const struct elf_info *info,
 	return info->symtab_shndx_start[sym - info->symtab_start];
 }
 
+static inline bool strends(const char *str, const char *postfix)
+{
+	if (strlen(str) < strlen(postfix))
+		return false;
+
+	return strcmp(str + strlen(str) - strlen(postfix), postfix) == 0;
+}
+
 /* file2alias.c */
 extern unsigned int cross_build;
 void handle_moddevtable(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
diff --git a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
index d587f40f1117..760e6baa7eda 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c
@@ -391,10 +391,14 @@ void get_src_version(const char *modname, char sum[], unsigned sumlen)
 	struct md4_ctx md;
 	char *fname;
 	char filelist[PATH_MAX + 1];
+	int postfix_len = 1;
+
+	if (strends(modname, ".lto.o"))
+		postfix_len = 5;
 
 	/* objects for a module are listed in the first line of *.mod file. */
 	snprintf(filelist, sizeof(filelist), "%.*smod",
-		 (int)strlen(modname) - 1, modname);
+		 (int)strlen(modname) - postfix_len, modname);
 
 	buf = read_text_file(filelist);