Changing the mode of x before using the old value is clearly wrong.
And x is not needed anymore afterward so besides being misplaced,
the assignment is not needed in the first place.
Tested manually as it's a bit complicated to set up a test.
Needs to be back-ported to 1.17.
Fixes #47777.
Change-Id: I06f1fa9443eb98009b4276f566d557fd52f1d6d3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/343809
Trust: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>