diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 69423cd6f27a..56db0a4a2ae0 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 639fe4b12f92b54c9c3b38c82cdafaa38cfd3e63
+refs/heads/master: 9f591fd76afdc0e5192e9ed00a36f8efc0b4dfe6
diff --git a/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index b09d3b27ca14..3b8b6387c47c 100644
--- a/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -395,6 +395,9 @@ static int process_buildids(void)
 {
 	u64 size = lseek(output, 0, SEEK_CUR);
 
+	if (size == 0)
+		return 0;
+
 	session->fd = output;
 	return __perf_session__process_events(session, post_processing_offset,
 					      size - post_processing_offset,