diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/streaming/streaming.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/streaming/streaming.go
index bdcbd91c016..971c46d496a 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/streaming/streaming.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/streaming/streaming.go
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ func (d *decoder) Decode(defaults *schema.GroupVersionKind, into runtime.Object)
 			}
 			// must read the rest of the frame (until we stop getting ErrShortBuffer)
 			d.resetRead = true
-			base = 0 //nolint:ineffassign
 			return nil, nil, ErrObjectTooLarge
 		}
 		if err != nil {