[PATCH 14/20] mtd: maps: plat-ram: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Sun Oct 8 13:01:37 PDT 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/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c
index 4c921dce7396..8b736f029f81 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/plat-ram.c
@@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ static inline void platram_setrw(struct platram_info *info, int to)
  * called to remove the device from the driver's control
 */
 
-static int platram_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void platram_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct platram_info *info = to_platram_info(pdev);
 
 	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "removing device\n");
 
 	if (info == NULL)
-		return 0;
+		return;
 
 	if (info->mtd) {
 		mtd_device_unregister(info->mtd);
@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ static int platram_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	platram_setrw(info, PLATRAM_RO);
 
 	kfree(info);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 /* platram_probe
@@ -207,7 +205,7 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("platform:mtd-ram");
 
 static struct platform_driver platram_driver = {
 	.probe		= platram_probe,
-	.remove		= platram_remove,
+	.remove_new	= platram_remove,
 	.driver		= {
 		.name	= "mtd-ram",
 	},
-- 
2.40.1




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