diff --git a/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh b/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh
index 513da1a4a2da..d67830e6e360 100755
--- a/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh
+++ b/scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh
@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ while read sympath; do
 	depfile="include/config/ksym/${sympath}.h"
 	mkdir -p "$(dirname "$depfile")"
 	touch "$depfile"
+	# Filesystems with coarse time precision may create timestamps
+	# equal to the one from a file that was very recently built and that
+	# needs to be rebuild. Let's guard against that by making sure our
+	# dep files are always newer than the first file we created here.
+	while [ ! "$depfile" -nt "$new_ksyms_file" ]; do
+		touch "$depfile"
+	done
 	echo $((count += 1))
 done | tail -1 )
 changed=${changed:-0}