diff --git a/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh b/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
index 1324986e1362..725e8c9c1b53 100755
--- a/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
+++ b/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@
 set -e
 
 # List of exported symbols
-ksyms=$($NM $1 | sed -n 's/.*__ksym_marker_\(.*\)/\1/p' | tr A-Z a-z)
+#
+# If the object has no symbol, $NM warns 'no symbols'.
+# Suppress the stderr.
+# TODO:
+#   Use -q instead of 2>/dev/null when we upgrade the minimum version of
+#   binutils to 2.37, llvm to 13.0.0.
+ksyms=$($NM $1 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/.*__ksym_marker_\(.*\)/\1/p' | tr A-Z a-z)
 
 if [ -z "$ksyms" ]; then
 	exit 0