We should go to the cleanup path. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c index 614f278235fa..2508a7a552fa 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -1617,8 +1617,9 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv) annotation_config__init(); symbol_conf.try_vmlinux_path = (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name == NULL); - if (symbol__init(NULL) < 0) - return -1; + status = symbol__init(NULL); + if (status < 0) + goto out_delete_evlist; sort__setup_elide(stdout); -- 2.19.1