diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 288a60673490..9adcfdb16030 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 87ff50a3192152944d8e65b485bbf3d03214d0b6
+refs/heads/master: 1500b93b61fc70a1176871b64f1c8ae3bd4da9dd
diff --git a/trunk/tools/perf/util/event.c b/trunk/tools/perf/util/event.c
index 8202f5ca0483..6715b1938725 100644
--- a/trunk/tools/perf/util/event.c
+++ b/trunk/tools/perf/util/event.c
@@ -904,8 +904,9 @@ int perf_event__preprocess_sample(const union perf_event *event,
 		al->sym = map__find_symbol(al->map, al->addr, filter);
 	}
 
-	if (symbol_conf.sym_list && al->sym &&
-	    !strlist__has_entry(symbol_conf.sym_list, al->sym->name))
+	if (symbol_conf.sym_list &&
+		(!al->sym || !strlist__has_entry(symbol_conf.sym_list,
+						al->sym->name)))
 		goto out_filtered;
 
 	return 0;