diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
index 5ce239875c98..176868496879 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static void arm_trbe_register_coresight_cpu(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata, int cp
 
 	dev = &cpudata->drvdata->pdev->dev;
 	desc.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "trbe%d", cpu);
-	if (IS_ERR(desc.name))
+	if (!desc.name)
 		goto cpu_clear;
 
 	desc.type = CORESIGHT_DEV_TYPE_SINK;