1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 1410d66192f7..63a3afc7f32b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -561,7 +561,8 @@ try_again:
                                         break;
                         }
                 }
-                wait4(child_pid, &status, 0, &stat_config.ru_data);
+                if (child_pid != -1)
+                        wait4(child_pid, &status, 0, &stat_config.ru_data);
 
                 if (workload_exec_errno) {
                         const char *emsg = str_error_r(workload_exec_errno, msg, sizeof(msg));