diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index cec859b2e3ae..e040bab1c9c8 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 2da30e703c5a56e27249fa8b8607708123fa52f5
+refs/heads/master: 607b30fcf20c6e5339591692db6ffa0b15e041a0
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin b/trunk/scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin
index 102a276f6eea..1adb974e6950 100644
--- a/trunk/scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin
+++ b/trunk/scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ __modbuiltin:
 
 include scripts/Kbuild.include
 
+ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
+# Create output directory if not already present
+_dummy := $(shell [ -d $(obj) ] || mkdir -p $(obj))
+endif
+
 # The filename Kbuild has precedence over Makefile
 kbuild-dir := $(if $(filter /%,$(src)),$(src),$(srctree)/$(src))
 kbuild-file := $(if $(wildcard $(kbuild-dir)/Kbuild),$(kbuild-dir)/Kbuild,$(kbuild-dir)/Makefile)