diff --git a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
index e3820956d1..6c3e41fb31 100644
--- a/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
+++ b/libavcodec/vaapi_encode.c
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ static int vaapi_encode_output(AVCodecContext *avctx,
 
         if (pic->tail_size) {
             if (ctx->tail_pkt->size) {
-                err = AVERROR(AVERROR_BUG);
+                err = AVERROR_BUG;
                 goto end;
             }