[PATCH 21/21] EDAC/zynqmp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Michal Simek michal.simek at amd.com
Wed Oct 4 06:14:44 PDT 2023



On 10/4/23 15:12, 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 at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>   drivers/edac/zynqmp_edac.c | 6 ++----
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/zynqmp_edac.c b/drivers/edac/zynqmp_edac.c
> index ac7d1e0b324c..2d9a5cfd8931 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/zynqmp_edac.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/zynqmp_edac.c
> @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ static int edac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> -static int edac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void edac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>   	struct edac_device_ctl_info *dci = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>   	struct edac_priv *priv = dci->pvt_info;
> @@ -440,8 +440,6 @@ static int edac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   
>   	edac_device_del_device(&pdev->dev);
>   	edac_device_free_ctl_info(dci);
> -
> -	return 0;
>   }
>   
>   static const struct of_device_id zynqmp_ocm_edac_match[] = {
> @@ -457,7 +455,7 @@ static struct platform_driver zynqmp_ocm_edac_driver = {
>   		   .of_match_table = zynqmp_ocm_edac_match,
>   		   },
>   	.probe = edac_probe,
> -	.remove = edac_remove,
> +	.remove_new = edac_remove,
>   };
>   
>   module_platform_driver(zynqmp_ocm_edac_driver);

Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at amd.com>

Thanks,
Michal



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