The variable linestate being assigned a value that is never read, the following continue statement jumps to the end of the while-loop and then it is re-assigned a new value. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Cleans up clang scan build warning: drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_cls.c:398:4: warning: Value stored to 'linestatus' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores] Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240216121732.2106445-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>