Re: [PATCH 01/42] crypto: sun4i-ss - Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:55:23 +0200
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:

Hi,

> 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@pengutronix.de>

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

Cheers,
Andre

> ---
>  drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c
> index 3bcfcfc37084..ba80878e2df5 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/allwinner/sun4i-ss/sun4i-ss-core.c
> @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ static int sun4i_ss_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> -static int sun4i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void sun4i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	int i;
>  	struct sun4i_ss_ctx *ss = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> @@ -529,7 +529,6 @@ static int sun4i_ss_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	}
>  
>  	sun4i_ss_pm_exit(ss);
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static const struct of_device_id a20ss_crypto_of_match_table[] = {
> @@ -545,7 +544,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, a20ss_crypto_of_match_table);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver sun4i_ss_driver = {
>  	.probe          = sun4i_ss_probe,
> -	.remove         = sun4i_ss_remove,
> +	.remove_new     = sun4i_ss_remove,
>  	.driver         = {
>  		.name           = "sun4i-ss",
>  		.pm		= &sun4i_ss_pm_ops,