diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
index e777686190ca..c13f14edb508 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-const-variable)
 subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-option, -Wpacked-not-aligned)
 subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-option, -Wformat-overflow)
 subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-option, -Wformat-truncation)
-subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-overflow)
 subdir-ccflags-y += $(call cc-option, -Wstringop-truncation)
 # The following turn off the warnings enabled by -Wextra
 ifeq ($(findstring 2, $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN)),)