diff --git a/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh b/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
index 63792af004170ed772ccdfdaf22b2c05e5996cab..6b350e75014c9edfa12ff37a9c2988d55c109af2 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
+++ b/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
@@ -15,21 +15,8 @@ if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-# Have Kbuild supply the path to objdump and nm so we handle cross compilation.
-objdump="$1"
-nm="$2"
-vmlinux="$3"
-
-# Remove from the bad relocations those that match an undefined weak symbol
-# which will result in an absolute relocation to 0.
-# Weak unresolved symbols are of that form in nm output:
-# "                  w _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_end"
-undef_weak_symbols=$($nm "$vmlinux" | awk '$1 ~ /w/ { print $2 }')
-
 bad_relocs=$(
-$objdump -R "$vmlinux" |
-	# Only look at relocation lines.
-	grep -E '\<R_' |
+${srctree}/scripts/relocs_check.sh "$@" |
 	# These relocations are okay
 	# On PPC64:
 	#	R_PPC64_RELATIVE, R_PPC64_NONE
@@ -44,8 +31,7 @@ R_PPC_ADDR16_LO
 R_PPC_ADDR16_HI
 R_PPC_ADDR16_HA
 R_PPC_RELATIVE
-R_PPC_NONE' |
-	([ "$undef_weak_symbols" ] && grep -F -w -v "$undef_weak_symbols" || cat)
+R_PPC_NONE'
 )
 
 if [ -z "$bad_relocs" ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/relocs_check.sh b/scripts/relocs_check.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..137c660499f331bef61d1acc7d43563d2c692b22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/relocs_check.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+# Get a list of all the relocations, remove from it the relocations
+# that are known to be legitimate and return this list to arch specific
+# script that will look for suspicious relocations.
+
+objdump="$1"
+nm="$2"
+vmlinux="$3"
+
+# Remove from the possible bad relocations those that match an undefined
+# weak symbol which will result in an absolute relocation to 0.
+# Weak unresolved symbols are of that form in nm output:
+# "                  w _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_end"
+undef_weak_symbols=$($nm "$vmlinux" | awk '$1 ~ /w/ { print $2 }')
+
+$objdump -R "$vmlinux" |
+	grep -E '\<R_' |
+	([ "$undef_weak_symbols" ] && grep -F -w -v "$undef_weak_symbols" || cat)