diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index 7544d7d09160980ae5382c5acfac9b13a7628065..e23f1b6b9402be3dfaafab357c73dbe1fefd21a8 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -4669,6 +4669,30 @@ static int bpf_object__create_map(struct bpf_object *obj, struct bpf_map *map, b
 			create_attr.inner_map_fd = map->inner_map_fd;
 	}
 
+	switch (def->type) {
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGROUP_ARRAY:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK_TRACE:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY_OF_MAPS:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH_OF_MAPS:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_DEVMAP:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_DEVMAP_HASH:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_XSKMAP:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_SOCKMAP:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_SOCKHASH:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_QUEUE:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK:
+	case BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF:
+		create_attr.btf_fd = 0;
+		create_attr.btf_key_type_id = 0;
+		create_attr.btf_value_type_id = 0;
+		map->btf_key_type_id = 0;
+		map->btf_value_type_id = 0;
+	default:
+		break;
+	}
+
 	if (obj->gen_loader) {
 		bpf_gen__map_create(obj->gen_loader, &create_attr, is_inner ? -1 : map - obj->maps);
 		/* Pretend to have valid FD to pass various fd >= 0 checks.