Re: [PATCH 3/7] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw-new: Don't error out in .remove()

[Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 at 11:17, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Returning early from .remove() with an error code still results in the
> driver unbinding the device. So the driver core ignores the returned error
> code and the resources that were not freed are never catched up. In
> combination with devm this also often results in use-after-free bugs.
>
> If runtime resume fails, it's still important to free all resources, so
> don't return with an error code, but emit an error message and continue
> freeing acquired stuff.
>
> This prepares changing cpsw_remove() to return void.
>
> Fixes: ed3525eda4c4 ("net: ethernet: ti: introduce cpsw switchdev based driver part 1 - dual-emac")
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c
> index 0e4f526b1753..a6ce409f563c 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_new.c
> @@ -2042,16 +2042,24 @@ static int cpsw_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         struct cpsw_common *cpsw = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>         int ret;
>
> -       ret = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(&pdev->dev);
> +       ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(&pdev->dev);
>         if (ret < 0)
> -               return ret;
> +               /* There is no need to do something about that. The important
> +                * thing is to not exit early, but do all cleanup that doesn't
> +                * requrie register access.
> +                */
> +               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "runtime resume failed (%pe)\n",
> +                       ERR_PTR(ret));
>
>         cpsw_unregister_notifiers(cpsw);
>         cpsw_unregister_devlink(cpsw);
>         cpsw_unregister_ports(cpsw);
>
> -       cpts_release(cpsw->cpts);
> -       cpdma_ctlr_destroy(cpsw->dma);
> +       if (ret >= 0) {
> +               cpts_release(cpsw->cpts);
> +               cpdma_ctlr_destroy(cpsw->dma);
> +       }
> +
>         cpsw_remove_dt(cpsw);
>         pm_runtime_put_sync(&pdev->dev);
>         pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
> --
> 2.42.0
>

Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>