[PATCH 2/6] ipmi: ipmi_powernv: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Mar 6 03:26:59 AEDT 2024


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 at pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_powernv.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_powernv.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_powernv.c
index da22a8cbe68e..c59a86eb58c7 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_powernv.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_powernv.c
@@ -281,15 +281,13 @@ static int ipmi_powernv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return rc;
 }
 
-static int ipmi_powernv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void ipmi_powernv_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct ipmi_smi_powernv *smi = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev);
 
 	ipmi_unregister_smi(smi->intf);
 	free_irq(smi->irq, smi);
 	irq_dispose_mapping(smi->irq);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id ipmi_powernv_match[] = {
@@ -304,7 +302,7 @@ static struct platform_driver powernv_ipmi_driver = {
 		.of_match_table	= ipmi_powernv_match,
 	},
 	.probe	= ipmi_powernv_probe,
-	.remove	= ipmi_powernv_remove,
+	.remove_new = ipmi_powernv_remove,
 };
 
 
-- 
2.43.0



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