diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ff2b90ddc9bc..851023adcd20 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -426,6 +426,7 @@ PYTHON2		= python2
 PYTHON3		= python3
 CHECK		= sparse
 BASH		= bash
+KGZIP		= gzip
 
 CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ \
 		  -Wbitwise -Wno-return-void -Wno-unknown-attribute $(CF)
@@ -475,6 +476,7 @@ export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL BASH HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS
 export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP OBJSIZE PAHOLE LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL
 export PERL PYTHON PYTHON2 PYTHON3 CHECK CHECKFLAGS MAKE UTS_MACHINE HOSTCXX
 export KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS LDFLAGS_MODULE
+export KGZIP
 
 export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS KBUILD_LDFLAGS
 export KBUILD_CFLAGS CFLAGS_KERNEL CFLAGS_MODULE
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 342618a2bccb..d81bb59fb3d3 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ cmd_objcopy = $(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS_$(@F)) $< $@
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 quiet_cmd_gzip = GZIP    $@
-      cmd_gzip = cat $(real-prereqs) | gzip -n -f -9 > $@
+      cmd_gzip = cat $(real-prereqs) | $(KGZIP) -n -f -9 > $@
 
 # DTC
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------