1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
index c6e4bc523492..4a2f12081964 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static double timeval2double(struct timeval *ts)
 static void alloc_mem(void **dst, size_t length)
 {
         *dst = zalloc(length);
-        if (!dst)
+        if (!*dst)
                 die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
 }