Le Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:55:44AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König a écrit :
> 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>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/intel/ixp4xx/ixp4xx_crypto.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/intel/ixp4xx/ixp4xx_crypto.c b/drivers/crypto/intel/ixp4xx/ixp4xx_crypto.c
> index 4a18095ae5d8..f8a77bff8844 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/intel/ixp4xx/ixp4xx_crypto.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/intel/ixp4xx/ixp4xx_crypto.c
> @@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ static int ixp_crypto_probe(struct platform_device *_pdev)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int ixp_crypto_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void ixp_crypto_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> int num = ARRAY_SIZE(ixp4xx_algos);
> int i;
> @@ -1578,8 +1578,6 @@ static int ixp_crypto_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> crypto_unregister_skcipher(&ixp4xx_algos[i].crypto);
> }
> release_ixp_crypto(&pdev->dev);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
> static const struct of_device_id ixp4xx_crypto_of_match[] = {
> {
> @@ -1590,7 +1588,7 @@ static const struct of_device_id ixp4xx_crypto_of_match[] = {
>
> static struct platform_driver ixp_crypto_driver = {
> .probe = ixp_crypto_probe,
> - .remove = ixp_crypto_remove,
> + .remove_new = ixp_crypto_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "ixp4xx_crypto",
> .of_match_table = ixp4xx_crypto_of_match,
> --
> 2.42.0
>
Acked-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks
