diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 82da98c940f6..7a6db6197b48 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: c3a34e06db25a8c74e196517732d65cdb56028ec
+refs/heads/master: 68a7a771ad0e2959983729bf88cbc74a7014438f
diff --git a/trunk/tools/perf/util/header.c b/trunk/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 64a85bafde63..7cba0551a565 100644
--- a/trunk/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/trunk/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -265,15 +265,16 @@ int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir,
 			  const char *name, bool is_kallsyms)
 {
 	const size_t size = PATH_MAX;
-	char *filename = malloc(size),
+	char *realname = realpath(name, NULL),
+	     *filename = malloc(size),
 	     *linkname = malloc(size), *targetname;
 	int len, err = -1;
 
-	if (filename == NULL || linkname == NULL)
+	if (realname == NULL || filename == NULL || linkname == NULL)
 		goto out_free;
 
 	len = snprintf(filename, size, "%s%s%s",
-		       debugdir, is_kallsyms ? "/" : "", name);
+		       debugdir, is_kallsyms ? "/" : "", realname);
 	if (mkdir_p(filename, 0755))
 		goto out_free;
 
@@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir,
 		if (is_kallsyms) {
 			 if (copyfile("/proc/kallsyms", filename))
 				goto out_free;
-		} else if (link(name, filename) && copyfile(name, filename))
+		} else if (link(realname, filename) && copyfile(name, filename))
 			goto out_free;
 	}
 
@@ -300,6 +301,7 @@ int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir,
 	if (symlink(targetname, linkname) == 0)
 		err = 0;
 out_free:
+	free(realname);
 	free(filename);
 	free(linkname);
 	return err;