Re: [PATCH 07/13] irqchip/mvebu-pic: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Gregory CLEMENT
Date: Tue Feb 27 2024 - 11:44:26 EST


Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Gregory
> ---
> drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c
> index ef3d3646ccc2..57e3f99b61f5 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-mvebu-pic.c
> @@ -167,14 +167,12 @@ static int mvebu_pic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int mvebu_pic_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void mvebu_pic_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct mvebu_pic *pic = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> on_each_cpu(mvebu_pic_disable_percpu_irq, pic, 1);
> irq_domain_remove(pic->domain);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static const struct of_device_id mvebu_pic_of_match[] = {
> @@ -185,7 +183,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, mvebu_pic_of_match);
>
> static struct platform_driver mvebu_pic_driver = {
> .probe = mvebu_pic_probe,
> - .remove = mvebu_pic_remove,
> + .remove_new = mvebu_pic_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "mvebu-pic",
> .of_match_table = mvebu_pic_of_match,
> --
> 2.42.0
>

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Gregory Clement, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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