linux-kernel - [PATCH 16/27] platform/mellanox: mlxreg-hotplug: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:10:29 +0200
From:   Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@...dia.com>
Cc:     platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: [PATCH 16/27] platform/mellanox: mlxreg-hotplug: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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@...gutronix.de>
---
 drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-hotplug.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-hotplug.c b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-hotplug.c
index eb5ad35274dd..5c022b258f91 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-hotplug.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxreg-hotplug.c
@@ -786,15 +786,13 @@ static int mlxreg_hotplug_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int mlxreg_hotplug_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void mlxreg_hotplug_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct mlxreg_hotplug_priv_data *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev);
 
 	/* Clean interrupts setup. */
 	mlxreg_hotplug_unset_irq(priv);
 	devm_free_irq(&pdev->dev, priv->irq, priv);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static struct platform_driver mlxreg_hotplug_driver = {
@@ -802,7 +800,7 @@ static struct platform_driver mlxreg_hotplug_driver = {
 		.name = "mlxreg-hotplug",
 	},
 	.probe = mlxreg_hotplug_probe,
-	.remove = mlxreg_hotplug_remove,
+	.remove_new = mlxreg_hotplug_remove,
 };
 
 module_platform_driver(mlxreg_hotplug_driver);
-- 
2.40.1