diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9142dbf41f0d..21316686af35 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -480,6 +480,8 @@ LZ4		= lz4c
 XZ		= xz
 ZSTD		= zstd
 
+PAHOLE_FLAGS	= $(shell PAHOLE=$(PAHOLE) $(srctree)/scripts/pahole-flags.sh)
+
 CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ \
 		  -Wbitwise -Wno-return-void -Wno-unknown-attribute $(CF)
 NOSTDINC_FLAGS :=
@@ -534,6 +536,7 @@ export KBUILD_CFLAGS CFLAGS_KERNEL CFLAGS_MODULE
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS AFLAGS_KERNEL AFLAGS_MODULE
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE
 export KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL
+export PAHOLE_FLAGS
 
 # Files to ignore in find ... statements
 
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
index ff805777431c..ce9661d968a3 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modfinal
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ quiet_cmd_ld_ko_o = LD [M]  $@
 quiet_cmd_btf_ko = BTF [M] $@
       cmd_btf_ko = 							\
 	if [ -f vmlinux ]; then						\
-		LLVM_OBJCOPY="$(OBJCOPY)" $(PAHOLE) -J --btf_base vmlinux $@; \
+		LLVM_OBJCOPY="$(OBJCOPY)" $(PAHOLE) -J $(PAHOLE_FLAGS) --btf_base vmlinux $@; \
 	else								\
 		printf "Skipping BTF generation for %s due to unavailability of vmlinux\n" $@ 1>&2; \
 	fi;
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 3819a461465d..57ef6accbb40 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ vmlinux_link()
 gen_btf()
 {
 	local pahole_ver
-	local extra_paholeopt=
 
 	if ! [ -x "$(command -v ${PAHOLE})" ]; then
 		echo >&2 "BTF: ${1}: pahole (${PAHOLE}) is not available"
@@ -226,16 +225,8 @@ gen_btf()
 
 	vmlinux_link ${1}
 
-	if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "118" ] && [ "${pahole_ver}" -le "121" ]; then
-		# pahole 1.18 through 1.21 can't handle zero-sized per-CPU vars
-		extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --skip_encoding_btf_vars"
-	fi
-	if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "121" ]; then
-		extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --btf_gen_floats"
-	fi
-
 	info "BTF" ${2}
-	LLVM_OBJCOPY="${OBJCOPY}" ${PAHOLE} -J ${extra_paholeopt} ${1}
+	LLVM_OBJCOPY="${OBJCOPY}" ${PAHOLE} -J ${PAHOLE_FLAGS} ${1}
 
 	# Create ${2} which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add
 	# SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all
diff --git a/scripts/pahole-flags.sh b/scripts/pahole-flags.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e6093adf4c06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/pahole-flags.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+extra_paholeopt=
+
+if ! [ -x "$(command -v ${PAHOLE})" ]; then
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+pahole_ver=$(${PAHOLE} --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/')
+
+if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "118" ] && [ "${pahole_ver}" -le "121" ]; then
+	# pahole 1.18 through 1.21 can't handle zero-sized per-CPU vars
+	extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --skip_encoding_btf_vars"
+fi
+if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "121" ]; then
+	extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --btf_gen_floats"
+fi
+
+echo ${extra_paholeopt}