diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index 79954d0..80fb343 100644
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ Source0: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-%{kversion}.tar.xz
 
 Source10: perf-man-%{kversion}.tar.gz
 Source11: x509.genkey
-
+Source12: remove-binary-diff.pl
 Source15: merge.pl
 Source16: mod-extra.list
 Source17: mod-extra.sh
@@ -1118,17 +1118,19 @@ if [ ! -d kernel-%{kversion}%{?dist}/vanilla-%{vanillaversion} ]; then
     cp -al vanilla-%{kversion} vanilla-%{vanillaversion}
     cd vanilla-%{vanillaversion}
 
+cp %{SOURCE12} .
+
 # Update vanilla to the latest upstream.
 # (non-released_kernel case only)
 %if 0%{?rcrev}
-    xzcat %{SOURCE5000} | patch -p1 -F1 -s
+    xzcat %{SOURCE5000} | ./remove-binary-diff.pl | patch -p1 -F1 -s
 %if 0%{?gitrev}
-    xzcat %{SOURCE5001} | patch -p1 -F1 -s
+    xzcat %{SOURCE5001} | ./remove-binary-diff.pl | patch -p1 -F1 -s
 %endif
 %else
 # pre-{base_sublevel+1}-rc1 case
 %if 0%{?gitrev}
-    xzcat %{SOURCE5000} | patch -p1 -F1 -s
+    xzcat %{SOURCE5000} | ./remove-binary-diff.pl | patch -p1 -F1 -s
 %endif
 %endif
     git init
@@ -2140,6 +2142,9 @@ fi
 #
 #
 %changelog
+* Wed Oct 12 2016 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
+- Add script to remove binary diffs
+
 * Wed Oct 12 2016 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 4.9.0-0.rc0.git7.1
 - Linux v4.8-14109-g1573d2c
 - Drop the extra parallel build optiosn from perf since perf does that on
diff --git a/remove-binary-diff.pl b/remove-binary-diff.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..520ac5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/remove-binary-diff.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+# A script to remove those terrible binary diffs from the patches which
+# screw up everything and rain on my parade.
+
+use strict;
+
+my @args=@ARGV;
+my @current_patch;
+my $is_binary = 0;
+my $cnt = 0;
+
+while(my $row = <>) {
+	# diff marks the start of a new file to check
+	if ($row =~ /^diff --git.*?(\S+)$/) {
+		if (!$is_binary) {
+			foreach my $line (@current_patch) {
+				print $line;
+			}
+		}
+		$is_binary = 0;
+		@current_patch = ();
+	} elsif ($row =~ /Binary files (.)* differ$/) {
+		$is_binary = 1;
+	}
+	push (@current_patch, $row);
+}
+
+if (!$is_binary) {
+	foreach my $line (@current_patch) {
+		print $line;
+	}
+}