diff --git a/profiling/build.rs b/profiling/build.rs
index 1baad70a33b..fcda2978a29 100644
--- a/profiling/build.rs
+++ b/profiling/build.rs
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ fn build_zend_php_ffis(
         "../zend_abstract_interface/sandbox/php8/sandbox.c"
     };
 
-    // Profiling only needs config and its dependencies.
+    // Profiling only needs config, exceptions and its dependencies.
     let zai_c_files = [
         "../zend_abstract_interface/config/config_decode.c",
         "../zend_abstract_interface/config/config_ini.c",
diff --git a/profiling/src/php_ffi.h b/profiling/src/php_ffi.h
index 93b17c627eb..c003c4fd323 100644
--- a/profiling/src/php_ffi.h
+++ b/profiling/src/php_ffi.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 // Profiling needs ZAI config for INI support.
 #include <config/config.h>
 
+// Exception profiling needs to get the message of the exception (and ZAI
+// provides `zai_exception_message()`)
 #include <exceptions/exceptions.h>
 
 // Used to communicate strings from C -> Rust.
diff --git a/profiling/src/profiling/mod.rs b/profiling/src/profiling/mod.rs
index feadf5a5da6..a7c1cc232d1 100644
--- a/profiling/src/profiling/mod.rs
+++ b/profiling/src/profiling/mod.rs
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ impl Profiler {
 
                 labels.push(Label {
                     key: "exception message",
-                    value: LabelValue::Str(message.clone().into()),
+                    value: LabelValue::Str(message.into()),
                 });
 
                 let n_labels = labels.len();