[PATCH 06/18] perf: arm_cspmu: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Dec 15 05:59:06 PST 2023


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 at pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
index 50b89b989ce7..3513bf50fefa 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
@@ -1252,14 +1252,12 @@ static int arm_cspmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int arm_cspmu_device_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void arm_cspmu_device_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct arm_cspmu *cspmu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
 	perf_pmu_unregister(&cspmu->pmu);
 	cpuhp_state_remove_instance(arm_cspmu_cpuhp_state, &cspmu->cpuhp_node);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct platform_device_id arm_cspmu_id[] = {
@@ -1274,7 +1272,7 @@ static struct platform_driver arm_cspmu_driver = {
 			.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
 		},
 	.probe = arm_cspmu_device_probe,
-	.remove = arm_cspmu_device_remove,
+	.remove_new = arm_cspmu_device_remove,
 	.id_table = arm_cspmu_id,
 };
 
-- 
2.42.0




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