On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:55:25 +0200
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
> 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: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
Cheers,
Andre
> ---
> drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-core.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-core.c b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-core.c
> index 4a9587285c04..f14c60359d19 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun8i-ss/sun8i-ss-core.c
> @@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ static int sun8i_ss_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return err;
> }
>
> -static int sun8i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void sun8i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct sun8i_ss_dev *ss = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> @@ -921,8 +921,6 @@ static int sun8i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> sun8i_ss_free_flows(ss, MAXFLOW - 1);
>
> sun8i_ss_pm_exit(ss);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static const struct of_device_id sun8i_ss_crypto_of_match_table[] = {
> @@ -936,7 +934,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sun8i_ss_crypto_of_match_table);
>
> static struct platform_driver sun8i_ss_driver = {
> .probe = sun8i_ss_probe,
> - .remove = sun8i_ss_remove,
> + .remove_new = sun8i_ss_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "sun8i-ss",
> .pm = &sun8i_ss_pm_ops,
