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(). Add an error message to the error path that returned an error before to replace the core's error message with more information. Apart from the different wording of the error message, this patch doesn't introduce a semantic difference. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hello, I'm unsure if calling spi_master_suspend() in .remove() is right, all other drivers only call it in their suspend callback. Also note that after spi_master_suspend() failed ti_qspi_dma_cleanup() isn't called which is probably another problem resulting in resource leaks or even possible use-after-free bugs. The fix for both is maybe to just drop calling spi_master_suspend()?! This call was introduced in commit 3ac066e2227c ("spi: spi-ti-qspi: Suspend the queue before removing the device"). The commit description suggests a bug fix that sounds like something the spi core should do right without each individual driver caring. Best regards Uwe drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c index 4c81516b67db..fdc092a05284 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-ti-qspi.c @@ -907,21 +907,22 @@ static int ti_qspi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return ret; } -static int ti_qspi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) +static void ti_qspi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct ti_qspi *qspi = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); int rc; rc = spi_master_suspend(qspi->master); - if (rc) - return rc; + if (rc) { + dev_alert(&pdev->dev, "spi_master_suspend() failed (%pe)\n", + ERR_PTR(rc)); + return; + } pm_runtime_put_sync(&pdev->dev); pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev); ti_qspi_dma_cleanup(qspi); - - return 0; } static const struct dev_pm_ops ti_qspi_pm_ops = { @@ -930,7 +931,7 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops ti_qspi_pm_ops = { static struct platform_driver ti_qspi_driver = { .probe = ti_qspi_probe, - .remove = ti_qspi_remove, + .remove_new = ti_qspi_remove, .driver = { .name = "ti-qspi", .pm = &ti_qspi_pm_ops, base-commit: e27090b1413ff236ca1aec26d6b022149115de2c -- 2.42.0