Re: [PATCH 02/11] cxl: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Andrew Donnellan
Date: Wed Feb 21 2024 - 21:46:30 EST


On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 10:53 +0100, 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/misc/cxl/of.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/of.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/of.c
> index 25ce725035e7..bcc005dff1c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/of.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/of.c
> @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ int cxl_of_read_adapter_properties(struct cxl
> *adapter, struct device_node *np)
>   return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int cxl_of_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void cxl_of_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>   struct cxl *adapter;
>   int afu;
> @@ -441,7 +441,6 @@ static int cxl_of_remove(struct platform_device
> *pdev)
>   cxl_guest_remove_afu(adapter->afu[afu]);
>  
>   cxl_guest_remove_adapter(adapter);
> - return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static void cxl_of_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
> @@ -501,6 +500,6 @@ struct platform_driver cxl_of_driver = {
>   .owner = THIS_MODULE
>   },
>   .probe = cxl_of_probe,
> - .remove = cxl_of_remove,
> + .remove_new = cxl_of_remove,
>   .shutdown = cxl_of_shutdown,
>  };

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Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra
ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx IBM Australia Limited