[PATCH 41/42] crypto: xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm - Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Michal Simek
michal.simek at amd.com
Fri Oct 20 02:19:51 PDT 2023
On 10/20/23 09:56, 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/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c b/drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c
> index ce335578b759..3c205324b22b 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/xilinx/zynqmp-aes-gcm.c
> @@ -421,12 +421,10 @@ static int zynqmp_aes_aead_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return err;
> }
>
> -static int zynqmp_aes_aead_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void zynqmp_aes_aead_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> crypto_engine_exit(aes_drv_ctx.engine);
> crypto_engine_unregister_aead(&aes_drv_ctx.alg.aead);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static const struct of_device_id zynqmp_aes_dt_ids[] = {
> @@ -437,7 +435,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, zynqmp_aes_dt_ids);
>
> static struct platform_driver zynqmp_aes_driver = {
> .probe = zynqmp_aes_aead_probe,
> - .remove = zynqmp_aes_aead_remove,
> + .remove_new = zynqmp_aes_aead_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "zynqmp-aes",
> .of_match_table = zynqmp_aes_dt_ids,
Reviewed-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at amd.com>
Thanks,
Michal
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