diff --git a/include/linux/vermagic.h b/include/linux/vermagic.h
index 9aced11e9000..7768d20ada39 100644
--- a/include/linux/vermagic.h
+++ b/include/linux/vermagic.h
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDE_VERMAGIC
+#error "This header can be included from kernel/module.c or *.mod.c only"
+#endif
+
 #include <generated/utsrelease.h>
 
 /* Simply sanity version stamp for modules. */
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 646f1e2330d2..8833e848b73c 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
    Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Russell, 2002, 2010 Rusty Russell IBM.
 
 */
+
+#define INCLUDE_VERMAGIC
+
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/extable.h>
 #include <linux/moduleloader.h>
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 5c3c50c5ec52..7f7d4ee7b652 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -2251,6 +2251,7 @@ static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct module *mod)
 	 * Include build-salt.h after module.h in order to
 	 * inherit the definitions.
 	 */
+	buf_printf(b, "#define INCLUDE_VERMAGIC\n");
 	buf_printf(b, "#include <linux/build-salt.h>\n");
 	buf_printf(b, "#include <linux/vermagic.h>\n");
 	buf_printf(b, "#include <linux/compiler.h>\n");