1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
index a19674666b4e..f7fb2587df69 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c
@@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *name,
                 if (is_kallsyms) {
                          if (copyfile("/proc/kallsyms", filename))
                                 goto out_free;
-                } else if (link(realname, filename) && copyfile(name, filename))
+                } else if (link(realname, filename) && errno != EEXIST &&
+                                copyfile(name, filename))
                         goto out_free;
         }