diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
index 93c83e3cb4a7a..25fd3f1966f19 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ static double timeval2double(struct timeval *ts)
 static void alloc_mem(void **dst, void **src, size_t length)
 {
 	*dst = zalloc(length);
-	if (!dst)
+	if (!*dst)
 		die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
 
 	*src = zalloc(length);
-	if (!src)
+	if (!*src)
 		die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
 }
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
index c6e4bc5234927..4a2f120819641 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memset.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static double timeval2double(struct timeval *ts)
 static void alloc_mem(void **dst, size_t length)
 {
 	*dst = zalloc(length);
-	if (!dst)
+	if (!*dst)
 		die("memory allocation failed - maybe length is too large?\n");
 }