diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 51e142f760f7c71b226f9c25bf6da21844fcf9da..84a2de34093459c703b87a9f41f1a92a1e8f13d9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -432,7 +432,8 @@ HOSTCXX	= g++
 endif
 
 export KBUILD_USERCFLAGS := -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \
-			      -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu89
+			      -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu89 \
+			      -Wdeclaration-after-statement
 export KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS :=
 
 KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS   := $(KBUILD_USERCFLAGS) $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCFLAGS)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
index 6c01b63ff56df4ee1cd6e915d196313e48836aec..f46457f1f4f06a89d63cedadcc4eba3e94bf8e1f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ VDSO_CFLAGS += -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
                -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
                -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
                -Wno-format-security \
+               -Wdeclaration-after-statement \
                -std=gnu89
 VDSO_CFLAGS  += -O2
 # Some useful compiler-dependent flags from top-level Makefile
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 6bfa332179140bee888179e24c9346d05736c16e..fe693304b1207df5b933698772c67c5eaffbef86 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -833,8 +833,10 @@ static int match(const char *sym, const char * const pat[])
 {
 	const char *p;
 	while (*pat) {
+		const char *endp;
+
 		p = *pat++;
-		const char *endp = p + strlen(p) - 1;
+		endp = p + strlen(p) - 1;
 
 		/* "*foo*" */
 		if (*p == '*' && *endp == '*') {