diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index f5f0d6f09053..9bbaf7112a9b 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ else
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-initializer-overrides
-KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, pointer-to-enum-cast)