diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 56c4fdcc1..b5b331d09 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ linux (4.1.5-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST (CVE-2015-5156)
   * ovl: Add support for NFS as lower filesystem (Closes: #786925)
   * perf: Fix double-free of the AUX buffer
+  * linux-source: Fix compression of the source tarball (Closes: #795199)
 
  -- Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org>  Tue, 04 Aug 2015 19:31:45 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/rules.real b/debian/rules.real
index 6f90f758c..f16cd09ef 100644
--- a/debian/rules.real
+++ b/debian/rules.real
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ $(BUILD_DIR)/linux-source-$(UPSTREAMVERSION).tar.xz: $(STAMPS_DIR)/source
 		xargs -0r touch --no-dereference --date='$(SOURCE_DATE)'
 	cd '$(BUILD_DIR)'; find 'linux-source-$(UPSTREAMVERSION)' -print0 | \
 		LC_ALL=C sort -z | \
-		xargs -0 tar --no-recursion -raf 'linux-source-$(UPSTREAMVERSION).tar.xz'
+		tar --no-recursion --null -T - -caf 'linux-source-$(UPSTREAMVERSION).tar.xz'
 	rm -rf '$(DIR)'
 
 $(BUILD_DIR)/linux-patch-$(UPSTREAMVERSION)-%.patch.xz: $(STAMPS_DIR)/source_none $(STAMPS_DIR)/source_%