diff --git a/linux-user/mips/signal.c b/linux-user/mips/signal.c
index d174b3453c..64072779b9 100644
--- a/linux-user/mips/signal.c
+++ b/linux-user/mips/signal.c
@@ -87,10 +87,8 @@ struct target_rt_sigframe {
 };
 
 /* Install trampoline to jump back from signal handler */
-static inline int install_sigtramp(unsigned int *tramp,   unsigned int syscall)
+static void install_sigtramp(uint32_t *tramp, unsigned int syscall)
 {
-    int err = 0;
-
     /*
      * Set up the return code ...
      *
@@ -100,7 +98,6 @@ static inline int install_sigtramp(unsigned int *tramp,   unsigned int syscall)
 
     __put_user(0x24020000 + syscall, tramp + 0);
     __put_user(0x0000000c          , tramp + 1);
-    return err;
 }
 
 static inline void setup_sigcontext(CPUMIPSState *regs,