diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
index 503393854e2e..ab92e98c89c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/reproducible-builds.rst
@@ -16,21 +16,16 @@ the kernel may be unreproducible, and how to avoid them.
 Timestamps
 ----------
 
-The kernel embeds timestamps in three places:
+The kernel embeds a timestamp in two places:
 
 * The version string exposed by ``uname()`` and included in
   ``/proc/version``
 
 * File timestamps in the embedded initramfs
 
-* If enabled via ``CONFIG_IKHEADERS``, file timestamps of kernel
-  headers embedded in the kernel or respective module,
-  exposed via ``/sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz``
-
-By default the timestamp is the current time and in the case of
-``kheaders`` the various files' modification times. This must
-be overridden using the `KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP`_ variable.
-If you are building from a git commit, you could use its commit date.
+By default the timestamp is the current time.  This must be overridden
+using the `KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP`_ variable.  If you are building
+from a git commit, you could use its commit date.
 
 The kernel does *not* use the ``__DATE__`` and ``__TIME__`` macros,
 and enables warnings if they are used.  If you incorporate external
diff --git a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
index aff79e461fc9..9ff449888d9c 100755
--- a/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
+++ b/kernel/gen_kheaders.sh
@@ -71,10 +71,7 @@ done | cpio --quiet -pd $cpio_dir >/dev/null 2>&1
 find $cpio_dir -type f -print0 |
 	xargs -0 -P8 -n1 perl -pi -e 'BEGIN {undef $/;}; s/\/\*((?!SPDX).)*?\*\///smg;'
 
-# Create archive and try to normalize metadata for reproducibility
-tar "${KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP:+--mtime=$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP}" \
-    --owner=0 --group=0 --sort=name --numeric-owner \
-    -Jcf $tarfile -C $cpio_dir/ . > /dev/null
+tar -Jcf $tarfile -C $cpio_dir/ . > /dev/null
 
 echo "$src_files_md5" >  kernel/kheaders.md5
 echo "$obj_files_md5" >> kernel/kheaders.md5