}
        /* special BTF "void" type is made canonical immediately */
        d->map[0] = 0;
-       for (i = 1; i <= btf->nr_types; i++)
-               d->map[i] = BTF_UNPROCESSED_ID;
+       for (i = 1; i <= btf->nr_types; i++) {
+               struct btf_type *t = d->btf->types[i];
+               __u16 kind = BTF_INFO_KIND(t->info);
+
+               /* VAR and DATASEC are never deduped and are self-canonical */
+               if (kind == BTF_KIND_VAR || kind == BTF_KIND_DATASEC)
+                       d->map[i] = i;
+               else
+                       d->map[i] = BTF_UNPROCESSED_ID;
+       }
 
        d->hypot_map = malloc(sizeof(__u32) * (1 + btf->nr_types));
        if (!d->hypot_map) {
        case BTF_KIND_UNION:
        case BTF_KIND_FUNC:
        case BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO:
+       case BTF_KIND_VAR:
+       case BTF_KIND_DATASEC:
                return 0;
 
        case BTF_KIND_INT:
        case BTF_KIND_PTR:
        case BTF_KIND_TYPEDEF:
        case BTF_KIND_FUNC:
+       case BTF_KIND_VAR:
                r = btf_dedup_remap_type_id(d, t->type);
                if (r < 0)
                        return r;
                break;
        }
 
+       case BTF_KIND_DATASEC: {
+               struct btf_var_secinfo *var = (struct btf_var_secinfo *)(t + 1);
+               __u16 vlen = BTF_INFO_VLEN(t->info);
+
+               for (i = 0; i < vlen; i++) {
+                       r = btf_dedup_remap_type_id(d, var->type);
+                       if (r < 0)
+                               return r;
+                       var->type = r;
+                       var++;
+               }
+               break;
+       }
+
        default:
                return -EINVAL;
        }