linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/12] bus: sunxi-rsb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date:   Fri, 10 Nov 2023 10:20:04 +0000
From:   Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
        Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>,
        Yuan Can <yuancan@...wei.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] bus: sunxi-rsb: Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void

On Thu,  9 Nov 2023 21:28:37 +0100
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> 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@...gutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>

Thanks,
Andre

> ---
>  drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c b/drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c
> index db0ed4e5d315..fd3e9d82340a 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c
> @@ -817,15 +817,13 @@ static int sunxi_rsb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int sunxi_rsb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void sunxi_rsb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct sunxi_rsb *rsb = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  
>  	device_for_each_child(rsb->dev, NULL, sunxi_rsb_remove_devices);
>  	pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
>  	sunxi_rsb_hw_exit(rsb);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct dev_pm_ops sunxi_rsb_dev_pm_ops = {
> @@ -842,7 +840,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sunxi_rsb_of_match_table);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver sunxi_rsb_driver = {
>  	.probe = sunxi_rsb_probe,
> -	.remove	= sunxi_rsb_remove,
> +	.remove_new = sunxi_rsb_remove,
>  	.driver	= {
>  		.name = RSB_CTRL_NAME,
>  		.of_match_table = sunxi_rsb_of_match_table,