diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_get_stack_rawtp.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_get_stack_rawtp.c
index d06b47a090972922eba7062cb3e75633e21efbd2..33254b771384e4d2c20a180c1c55b167ec37ca91 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_get_stack_rawtp.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_get_stack_rawtp.c
@@ -47,11 +47,12 @@ struct {
  * issue and avoid complicated C programming massaging.
  * This is an acceptable workaround since there is one entry here.
  */
+typedef __u64 raw_stack_trace_t[2 * MAX_STACK_RAWTP];
 struct {
 	__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY);
 	__uint(max_entries, 1);
 	__type(key, __u32);
-	__u64 (*value)[2 * MAX_STACK_RAWTP];
+	__type(value, raw_stack_trace_t);
 } rawdata_map SEC(".maps");
 
 SEC("tracepoint/raw_syscalls/sys_enter")
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_build_id.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_build_id.c
index bbfc8337b6f0e46eecf4281b20a82e7252f01690..f5638e26865d030804f60df8ea706ed81abdea76 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_build_id.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_build_id.c
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ struct {
 	__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY);
 	__uint(max_entries, 128);
 	__type(key, __u32);
-	/* there seems to be a bug in kernel not handling typedef properly */
-	struct bpf_stack_build_id (*value)[PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH];
+	__type(value, stack_trace_t);
 } stack_amap SEC(".maps");
 
 /* taken from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/random/urandom_read/format */
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_map.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_map.c
index 803c15dc109d21ee18e16fb40378847c2e2bfd86..fa0be3e10a1002c7834c6f6f9bfbaaea60ef8b27 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_map.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_map.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct {
 	__uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY);
 	__uint(max_entries, 16384);
 	__type(key, __u32);
-	__u64 (*value)[PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH];
+	__type(value, stack_trace_t);
 } stack_amap SEC(".maps");
 
 /* taken from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/format */