If activate_new() fails, it's set status; don't overwrite it.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pcap-linux.c b/pcap-linux.c
index 55ba6062..51de331d 100644
--- a/pcap-linux.c
+++ b/pcap-linux.c
@@ -1635,11 +1635,10 @@ pcap_activate_linux(pcap_t *handle)
 			/*
 			 * We failed to set up to use it, or the kernel
 			 * supports it, but we failed to enable it.
-			 * ret has been set to the error status to
+			 * status has been set to the error status to
 			 * return and, if it's PCAP_ERROR, handle->errbuf
 			 * contains the error message.
 			 */
-			status = ret;
 			goto fail;
 		}
 	}