There is no need to store the result of the addition back to variable count after the addition. The store is redundant, replace += with just + Cleans up clang scan build warning: warning: Although the value stored to 'count' is used in the enclosing expression, the value is never actually read from 'count' Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 0be01a4d48c1..1d6f75eef4bd 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -5934,7 +5934,7 @@ int rt6_dump_route(struct fib6_info *rt, void *p_arg, unsigned int skip) rcu_read_unlock(); if (err) - return count += w.count; + return count + w.count; } return -1; -- 2.35.3