The buildid filename is first determined and then from this the buildid read. If getting the filename fails then the buildid will be used for a later memcmp uninitialized. Detected by clang-tidy. Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c b/tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c index cd381693658b..e2a40f1d9225 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-buildid-cache.c @@ -277,8 +277,10 @@ static bool dso__missing_buildid_cache(struct dso *dso, int parm __maybe_unused) char filename[PATH_MAX]; struct build_id bid; - if (dso__build_id_filename(dso, filename, sizeof(filename), false) && - filename__read_build_id(filename, &bid) == -1) { + if (!dso__build_id_filename(dso, filename, sizeof(filename), false)) + return true; + + if (filename__read_build_id(filename, &bid) == -1) { if (errno == ENOENT) return false; -- 2.42.0.515.g380fc7ccd1-goog