The variable status is being initializeed with a value that is never read
and it is being updated later with a new value. The initialization
is redundant and can be removed.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>