On 09/04/2024 10:02, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
> many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
> returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart
> from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks.
>
> To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return
> void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to
> .remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers
> are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().
>
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matt Coster <matt.coster@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_drv.c | 7 ++-----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_drv.c
> index 5c3b2d58d766..1a0cb7aa9cea 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/imagination/pvr_drv.c
> @@ -1451,8 +1451,7 @@ pvr_probe(struct platform_device *plat_dev)
> return err;
> }
>
> -static int
> -pvr_remove(struct platform_device *plat_dev)
> +static void pvr_remove(struct platform_device *plat_dev)
> {
> struct drm_device *drm_dev = platform_get_drvdata(plat_dev);
> struct pvr_device *pvr_dev = to_pvr_device(drm_dev);
> @@ -1469,8 +1468,6 @@ pvr_remove(struct platform_device *plat_dev)
> pvr_watchdog_fini(pvr_dev);
> pvr_queue_device_fini(pvr_dev);
> pvr_context_device_fini(pvr_dev);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static const struct of_device_id dt_match[] = {
> @@ -1485,7 +1482,7 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops pvr_pm_ops = {
>
> static struct platform_driver pvr_driver = {
> .probe = pvr_probe,
> - .remove = pvr_remove,
> + .remove_new = pvr_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = PVR_DRIVER_NAME,
> .pm = &pvr_pm_ops,
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