diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-synthetic-event-createremove.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-synthetic-event-createremove.tc
index cef11377dcbd..c604438df13b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-synthetic-event-createremove.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/trigger/inter-event/trigger-synthetic-event-createremove.tc
@@ -35,20 +35,20 @@ fi
 
 reset_trigger
 
+echo "Test remove synthetic event"
+echo '!wakeup_latency  u64 lat pid_t pid char comm[16]' >> synthetic_events
+if [ -d events/synthetic/wakeup_latency ]; then
+    fail "Failed to delete wakeup_latency synthetic event"
+fi
+
+reset_trigger
+
 echo "Test create synthetic event with an error"
 echo 'wakeup_latency  u64 lat pid_t pid char' > synthetic_events > /dev/null
 if [ -d events/synthetic/wakeup_latency ]; then
     fail "Created wakeup_latency synthetic event with an invalid format"
 fi
 
-reset_trigger
-
-echo "Test remove synthetic event"
-echo '!wakeup_latency  u64 lat pid_t pid char comm[16]' > synthetic_events
-if [ -d events/synthetic/wakeup_latency ]; then
-    fail "Failed to delete wakeup_latency synthetic event"
-fi
-
 do_reset
 
 exit 0