diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 85e992d9215bef33fa305ae197cc1d0ee97ab8ea..69523ed55894338cb202804db6ffbf202410b74f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
 				process_interval();
 			}
 		}
-		wait(&status);
+		waitpid(child_pid, &status, 0);
 
 		if (workload_exec_errno) {
 			const char *emsg = str_error_r(workload_exec_errno, msg, sizeof(msg));