diff --git a/contrib/oss-fuzz/libpng_read_fuzzer.cc b/contrib/oss-fuzz/libpng_read_fuzzer.cc
index ef844e593..072219b5f 100644
--- a/contrib/oss-fuzz/libpng_read_fuzzer.cc
+++ b/contrib/oss-fuzz/libpng_read_fuzzer.cc
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that may
 // be found in the LICENSE file https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/LICENSE
 
-// Last changed in libpng 1.6.33beta03 [September 24, 2017]
+// Last changed in libpng 1.6.33beta03 [September 25, 2017]
 
 // The modifications in 2017 by Glenn Randers-Pehrson include
 // 1. addition of a PNG_CLEANUP macro,
@@ -169,23 +169,14 @@ extern "C" int LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput(const uint8_t* data, size_t size) {
   int passes = png_set_interlace_handling(png_handler.png_ptr);
   png_start_read_image(png_handler.png_ptr);
 
-  /* prevent the optimizer from removing this code entirely */
-  int max_sample = 0;
+  /* To do: prevent the optimizer from removing this code entirely */
   for (int pass = 0; pass < passes; ++pass) {
     for (png_uint_32 y = 0; y < height; ++y) {
       png_read_row(png_handler.png_ptr,
                    static_cast<png_bytep>(png_handler.row_ptr), nullptr);
-      max_sample = png_handler.row_ptr[0] > max_sample ?
-        png_handler.row_ptr[0] : max_sample;
     }
   }
 
-  /* I hope the compiler doesn't figure out that this cannot happen */
-  if (max_sample > 255) {
-    PNG_CLEANUP
-    return 0;
-  }
-
   png_read_end(png_handler.png_ptr, png_handler.end_info_ptr);
 
   PNG_CLEANUP