diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9b6610e005a..bfe3e36c2c4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ includecheck:
 		| xargs $(PERL) -w $(srctree)/scripts/checkincludes.pl
 
 versioncheck:
-	find * $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
+	find $(srctree)/* $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
 		-name '*.[hcS]' -type f -print | sort \
 		| xargs $(PERL) -w $(srctree)/scripts/checkversion.pl