diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kernel/head.S b/arch/loongarch/kernel/head.S
index 84970e266658..57bada6b4e93 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kernel/head.S
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ _head:
 	.dword	kernel_entry		/* Kernel entry point */
 	.dword	_end - _text		/* Kernel image effective size */
 	.quad	0			/* Kernel image load offset from start of RAM */
-	.org	0x3c			/* 0x20 ~ 0x3b reserved */
+	.org	0x38			/* 0x20 ~ 0x37 reserved */
+	.long	LINUX_PE_MAGIC
 	.long	pe_header - _head	/* Offset to the PE header */
 
 pe_header:
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index f912d7770130..be8f78a7ee32 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -80,10 +80,11 @@ bs_die:
 	ljmp	$0xf000,$0xfff0
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB
-	.org	0x3c
+	.org	0x38
 	#
 	# Offset to the PE header.
 	#
+	.long	LINUX_PE_MAGIC
 	.long	pe_header
 #endif /* CONFIG_EFI_STUB */
 
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S
index bc2d7750d7f1..ec4525d40e0c 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot-header.S
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ __efistub_efi_zboot_header:
 	.long		__efistub__gzdata_size - 12		// payload size
 	.long		0, 0					// reserved
 	.asciz		COMP_TYPE				// compression type
-	.org		.Ldoshdr + 0x3c
+	.org		.Ldoshdr + 0x38
+	.long		LINUX_PE_MAGIC
 	.long		.Lpehdr - .Ldoshdr			// PE header offset
 
 .Lpehdr:
diff --git a/include/linux/pe.h b/include/linux/pe.h
index 056a1762de90..6ffabf1e6d03 100644
--- a/include/linux/pe.h
+++ b/include/linux/pe.h
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@
 #define LINUX_EFISTUB_MAJOR_VERSION		0x1
 #define LINUX_EFISTUB_MINOR_VERSION		0x1
 
+/*
+ * LINUX_PE_MAGIC appears at offset 0x38 into the MS-DOS header of EFI bootable
+ * Linux kernel images that target the architecture as specified by the PE/COFF
+ * header machine type field.
+ */
+#define LINUX_PE_MAGIC	0x818223cd
+
 #define MZ_MAGIC	0x5a4d	/* "MZ" */
 
 #define PE_MAGIC		0x00004550	/* "PE\0\0" */