Commit 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF") changed the ELF type of .btf.vmlinux.bin.o to ET_REL via dd, which works fine for little endian platforms: 00000000 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............| -00000010 03 00 b7 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 ff ff |................| +00000010 01 00 b7 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 ff ff |................| However, for big endian platforms, it changes the wrong byte, resulting in an invalid ELF file type, which ld.lld rejects: 00000000 7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............| -00000010 00 03 00 16 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 |................| +00000010 01 03 00 16 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 |................| Type: <unknown>: 103 ld.lld: error: .btf.vmlinux.bin.o: unknown file type Fix this by updating the entire 16-bit e_type field rather than just a single byte, so that everything works correctly for all platforms and linkers. 00000000 7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............| -00000010 00 03 00 16 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 |................| +00000010 00 01 00 16 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 |................| Type: REL (Relocatable file) While in the area, update the comment to mention that binutils 2.35+ matches LLD's behavior of rejecting an ET_EXEC input, which occurred after the comment was added. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF") Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/75643 Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>