1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index f1532e3ac7d7..9e7b6f108956 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -1008,10 +1008,7 @@ static void print_metric_only(void *ctx, const char *color, const char *fmt,
         if (!valid_only_metric(unit))
                 return;
         unit = fixunit(buf, os->evsel, unit);
-        if (color)
-                n = color_fprintf(out, color, fmt, val);
-        else
-                n = fprintf(out, fmt, val);
+        n = color_fprintf(out, color ?: "", fmt, val);
         if (n > METRIC_ONLY_LEN)
                 n = METRIC_ONLY_LEN;
         if (mlen < strlen(unit))