diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c
index f2be0d87d73d..9259d4829765 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c
@@ -116,6 +116,28 @@ struct cpufreq_interactive_tunables {
 	bool io_is_busy;
 };
 
+/*
+ * HACK: FIXME: Bring back cpufreq_{get,put}_global_kobject()
+ * definition removed by upstream commit 8eec1020f0c0 "cpufreq:
+ * create cpu/cpufreq at boot time" to fix build failures.
+ */
+static int cpufreq_global_kobject_usage;
+
+int cpufreq_get_global_kobject(void)
+{
+	if (!cpufreq_global_kobject_usage++)
+		return kobject_add(cpufreq_global_kobject,
+				&cpu_subsys.dev_root->kobj, "%s", "cpufreq");
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void cpufreq_put_global_kobject(void)
+{
+	if (!--cpufreq_global_kobject_usage)
+		kobject_del(cpufreq_global_kobject);
+}
+
 /* For cases where we have single governor instance for system */
 static struct cpufreq_interactive_tunables *common_tunables;