[PATCH 6.1.y 1/2] mtd: docg3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Sasha Levin
2026-05-01T23:41:39Z

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

[ Upstream commit eb0cec77d534413a800ec20944a2b1e37cfecdcf ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20231008200143.196369-5-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Stable-dep-of: ca19808bc6fa ("mtd: docg3: fix use-after-free in docg3_release()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
index a7714e3de887f..8cb25cfd9c10a 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
@@ -2046,7 +2046,7 @@ static int __init docg3_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
*
* Returns 0
*/
-static int docg3_release(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void docg3_release(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct docg3_cascade *cascade = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
struct docg3 *docg3 = cascade->floors[0]->priv;
@@ -2058,7 +2058,6 @@ static int docg3_release(struct platform_device *pdev)
doc_release_device(cascade->floors[floor]);

bch_free(docg3->cascade->bch);
- return 0;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_OF
@@ -2076,7 +2075,7 @@ static struct platform_driver g3_driver = {
},
.suspend = docg3_suspend,
.resume = docg3_resume,
- .remove = docg3_release,
+ .remove_new = docg3_release,
};

module_platform_driver_probe(g3_driver, docg3_probe);
--
2.53.0