diff --git a/kabi.attr b/kabi.attr
index 2d81387..5500b17 100644
--- a/kabi.attr
+++ b/kabi.attr
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 %__kabi_provides	%{_rpmconfigdir}/kabi.sh
-%__kabi_path            ^(/boot/symvers-.*|/lib/modules/[1-9].*/symvers)\.gz$
+%__kabi_path            ^(/boot/symvers-.*|/lib/modules/[1-9].*/symvers)\.(gz|xz)$
diff --git a/kabi.sh b/kabi.sh
index 3fb749b..dd49b8b 100644
--- a/kabi.sh
+++ b/kabi.sh
@@ -7,10 +7,16 @@
 
 IFS=$'\n'
 
-for symvers in $(grep -E '(/boot/symvers-.*|/lib/modules/[1-9].*/symvers)\.gz') "$@";
+for symvers in $(grep -E '(/boot/symvers-.*|/lib/modules/[1-9].*/symvers)\.(gz|xz)') "$@";
 do
+	cat_prog="cat"
+	case "$symvers" in
+	*.gz) cat_prog="zcat" ;;
+	*.xz) cat_prog="xzcat" ;;
+	esac
+
 	# We generate dependencies only for symbols exported by vmlinux itself
 	# and not for kmods here as they are spread across subpackages,
 	# so Provides: generation for kmods is handled by find-provides.ksyms.
-	zcat $symvers | awk '/[^	]*	[^	]*	vmlinux	.*/ { print "kernel(" $2 ") = " $1 }'
+	"$cat_prog" "$symvers" | awk '/[^	]*	[^	]*	vmlinux	.*/ { print "kernel(" $2 ") = " $1 }'
 done