diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2763fce8766c..72ef86a5570d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -100,10 +100,6 @@ modules.order
 /include/ksym/
 /arch/*/include/generated/
 
-# Generated lkdtm tests
-/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/*.sh
-!/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh
-
 # stgit generated dirs
 patches-*
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f26212605b6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.sh
+!run.sh