[PATCH 12/12] mailbox: zynqmp-ipi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Michal Simek michal.simek at amd.com
Tue Jan 2 01:36:06 PST 2024



On 12/27/23 22:02, 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/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c | 6 ++----
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> index 7fa533e80dd9..610a92f9c0b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> +++ b/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
> @@ -688,19 +688,17 @@ static int zynqmp_ipi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	return ret;
>   }
>   
> -static int zynqmp_ipi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void zynqmp_ipi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>   	struct zynqmp_ipi_pdata *pdata;
>   
>   	pdata = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>   	zynqmp_ipi_free_mboxes(pdata);
> -
> -	return 0;
>   }
>   
>   static struct platform_driver zynqmp_ipi_driver = {
>   	.probe = zynqmp_ipi_probe,
> -	.remove = zynqmp_ipi_remove,
> +	.remove_new = zynqmp_ipi_remove,
>   	.driver = {
>   		   .name = "zynqmp-ipi",
>   		   .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(zynqmp_ipi_of_match),

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

Thanks,
Michal



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