Variable err is being assigned a zero value and it is never read afterwards in either the break path or continue path, the assignment is redundant and can be removed. With it removed, the if statement can also be simplified. Cleans up clang scan warning: net/tipc/socket.c:3570:5: warning: Value stored to 'err' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/socket.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c index 7e4135db5816..798397b6811e 100644 --- a/net/tipc/socket.c +++ b/net/tipc/socket.c @@ -3565,11 +3565,8 @@ int tipc_nl_sk_walk(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb, rhashtable_walk_start(iter); while ((tsk = rhashtable_walk_next(iter)) != NULL) { if (IS_ERR(tsk)) { - err = PTR_ERR(tsk); - if (err == -EAGAIN) { - err = 0; + if (PTR_ERR(tsk) == -EAGAIN) continue; - } break; } -- 2.39.2