diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
index d5382550..8be8928 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, pointer-to-enum-cast)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unaligned-access)
 endif
 
 endif
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index 59717be3..d3c3a61 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -979,10 +979,10 @@ static int conf_write_autoconf_cmd(const char *autoconf_name)
 
 	fprintf(out, "\n$(deps_config): ;\n");
 
-	if (ferror(out)) /* error check for all fprintf() calls */
-		return -1;
-
+	ret = ferror(out); /* error check for all fprintf() calls */
 	fclose(out);
+	if (ret)
+		return -1;
 
 	if (rename(tmp, name)) {
 		perror("rename");
@@ -994,14 +994,19 @@ static int conf_write_autoconf_cmd(const char *autoconf_name)
 
 static int conf_touch_deps(void)
 {
-	const char *name;
+	const char *name, *tmp;
 	struct symbol *sym;
 	int res, i;
 
-	strcpy(depfile_path, "include/config/");
-	depfile_prefix_len = strlen(depfile_path);
-
 	name = conf_get_autoconfig_name();
+	tmp = strrchr(name, '/');
+	depfile_prefix_len = tmp ? tmp - name + 1 : 0;
+	if (depfile_prefix_len + 1 > sizeof(depfile_path))
+		return -1;
+
+	strncpy(depfile_path, name, depfile_prefix_len);
+	depfile_path[depfile_prefix_len] = 0;
+
 	conf_read_simple(name, S_DEF_AUTO);
 	sym_calc_value(modules_sym);
 
@@ -1093,10 +1098,10 @@ static int __conf_write_autoconf(const char *filename,
 			print_symbol(file, sym);
 
 	/* check possible errors in conf_write_heading() and print_symbol() */
-	if (ferror(file))
-		return -1;
-
+	ret = ferror(file);
 	fclose(file);
+	if (ret)
+		return -1;
 
 	if (rename(tmp, filename)) {
 		perror("rename");
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c
index 0590f86..748da57 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static char *do_lineno(int argc, char *argv[])
 static char *do_shell(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	FILE *p;
-	char buf[256];
+	char buf[4096];
 	char *cmd;
 	size_t nread;
 	int i;