diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 74d67b2c35d9166c313f01c3c77960f8210c4b94..48d569d46ae1c023e6e9f0311612e50f78cb90bb 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -106,13 +106,12 @@ KBUILD_OUTPUT := $(shell cd $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) && /bin/pwd)
 $(if $(KBUILD_OUTPUT),, \
      $(error output directory "$(saved-output)" does not exist))
 
-.PHONY: $(MAKECMDGOALS) cdbuilddir
-$(MAKECMDGOALS) _all: cdbuilddir
+.PHONY: $(MAKECMDGOALS)
 
-cdbuilddir:
+$(filter-out _all,$(MAKECMDGOALS)) _all:
 	$(if $(KBUILD_VERBOSE:1=),@)$(MAKE) -C $(KBUILD_OUTPUT) \
 	KBUILD_SRC=$(CURDIR) \
-	KBUILD_EXTMOD="$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)" -f $(CURDIR)/Makefile $(MAKECMDGOALS)
+	KBUILD_EXTMOD="$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)" -f $(CURDIR)/Makefile $@
 
 # Leave processing to above invocation of make
 skip-makefile := 1