diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 4119e737fe87..210142c3ff00 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -222,8 +222,6 @@ cmd_gen_ksymdeps = \
 	$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh $@ >> $(dot-target).cmd
 endif
 
-cmd_check_local_export = $(srctree)/scripts/check-local-export $@
-
 ifneq ($(findstring 1, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)
 cmd_warn_shared_object = $(if $(word 2, $(modname-multi)),$(warning $(kbuild-file): $*.o is added to multiple modules: $(modname-multi)))
 endif
@@ -231,7 +229,6 @@ endif
 define rule_cc_o_c
 	$(call cmd_and_fixdep,cc_o_c)
 	$(call cmd,gen_ksymdeps)
-	$(call cmd,check_local_export)
 	$(call cmd,checksrc)
 	$(call cmd,checkdoc)
 	$(call cmd,gen_objtooldep)
@@ -243,7 +240,6 @@ endef
 define rule_as_o_S
 	$(call cmd_and_fixdep,as_o_S)
 	$(call cmd,gen_ksymdeps)
-	$(call cmd,check_local_export)
 	$(call cmd,gen_objtooldep)
 	$(call cmd,gen_symversions_S)
 	$(call cmd,warn_shared_object)
diff --git a/scripts/check-local-export b/scripts/check-local-export
deleted file mode 100755
index 86ad94647164..000000000000
--- a/scripts/check-local-export
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2022 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
-# Copyright (C) 2022 Owen Rafferty <owen@owenrafferty.com>
-#
-# Exit with error if a local exported symbol is found.
-# EXPORT_SYMBOL should be used for global symbols.
-
-set -e
-pid=$$
-
-# If there is no symbol in the object, ${NM} (both GNU nm and llvm-nm) shows
-# 'no symbols' diagnostic (but exits with 0). It is harmless and hidden by
-# '2>/dev/null'. However, it suppresses real error messages as well. Add a
-# hand-crafted error message here.
-#
-# TODO:
-# Use --quiet instead of 2>/dev/null when we upgrade the minimum version of
-# binutils to 2.37, llvm to 13.0.0.
-# Then, the following line will be simpler:
-#   { ${NM} --quiet ${1} || kill 0; } |
-
-{ ${NM} ${1} 2>/dev/null || { echo "${0}: ${NM} failed" >&2; kill $pid; } } |
-${AWK} -v "file=${1}" '
-BEGIN {
-	i = 0
-}
-
-# Skip the line if the number of fields is less than 3.
-#
-# case 1)
-#   For undefined symbols, the first field (value) is empty.
-#   The outout looks like this:
-#     "                 U _printk"
-#   It is unneeded to record undefined symbols.
-#
-# case 2)
-#   For Clang LTO, llvm-nm outputs a line with type t but empty name:
-#     "---------------- t"
-!length($3) {
-	next
-}
-
-# save (name, type) in the associative array
-{ symbol_types[$3]=$2 }
-
-# append the exported symbol to the array
-($3 ~ /^__export_symbol_.*/) {
-	export_symbols[i] = $3
-	sub(/^__export_symbol_/, "", export_symbols[i])
-	i++
-}
-
-END {
-	exit_code = 0
-	for (j = 0; j < i; ++j) {
-		name = export_symbols[j]
-		# nm(3) says "If lowercase, the symbol is usually local"
-		if (symbol_types[name] ~ /[a-z]/) {
-			printf "%s: error: local symbol %s was exported\n",
-				file, name | "cat 1>&2"
-			exit_code = 1
-		}
-	}
-
-	exit exit_code
-}'
-
-exit $?
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index ce37e6de5df7..6c1f95d18515 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1210,6 +1210,13 @@ static void check_export_symbol(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *elf,
 		return;
 	}
 
+	if (ELF_ST_BIND(sym->st_info) != STB_GLOBAL &&
+	    ELF_ST_BIND(sym->st_info) != STB_WEAK) {
+		error("%s: local symbol '%s' was exported\n", mod->name,
+		      label_name + strlen(prefix));
+		return;
+	}
+
 	name = sym_name(elf, sym);
 	if (strcmp(label_name + strlen(prefix), name)) {
 		error("%s: .export_symbol section references '%s', but it does not seem to be an export symbol\n",