The variable is overwritten immediately in the next iteration and the loop can't exit before doing that. Instead of dropping the assignment, one could add a return code check - but since event_cb() never fails, that check is pointless as well. Fixes: e0dac21ed02e3 ("conntrack: use libmnl for conntrack events") Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> --- src/conntrack.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/conntrack.c b/src/conntrack.c index aa6323dfbd1b1..07fae3dc2ff07 100644 --- a/src/conntrack.c +++ b/src/conntrack.c @@ -3479,7 +3479,7 @@ static int do_command_ct(const char *progname, struct ct_cmd *cmd, strerror(errno)); break; } - res = mnl_cb_run(buf, res, 0, 0, event_cb, cmd); + mnl_cb_run(buf, res, 0, 0, event_cb, cmd); } mnl_socket_close(event_sock->mnl); break; -- 2.38.0