diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 2998ddb323e3..436379940356 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ gen_btf()
 		cut -d, -f1 | cut -d' ' -f2)
 	bin_format=$(LANG=C ${OBJDUMP} -f ${1} | grep 'file format' | \
 		awk '{print $4}')
-	${OBJCOPY} --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
-		--only-section=.BTF ${1} .btf.vmlinux.bin 2>/dev/null
+	${OBJCOPY} --change-section-address .BTF=0 \
+		--set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
+		--only-section=.BTF ${1} .btf.vmlinux.bin
 	${OBJCOPY} -I binary -O ${bin_format} -B ${bin_arch} \
 		--rename-section .data=.BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin ${2}
 }