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Commit 5c5a7680 authored by Uwe Kleine-König's avatar Uwe Kleine-König Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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platform: Provide a remove callback that returns no value



struct platform_driver::remove returning an integer made driver authors
expect that returning an error code was proper error handling. However
the driver core ignores the error and continues to remove the device
because there is nothing the core could do anyhow and reentering the
remove callback again is only calling for trouble.

So this is an source for errors typically yielding resource leaks in the
error path.

As there are too many platform drivers to neatly convert them all to
return void in a single go, do it in several steps after this patch:

 a) Convert all drivers to implement .remove_new() returning void instead
    of .remove() returning int;
 b) Change struct platform_driver::remove() to return void and so make
    it identical to .remove_new();
 c) Change all drivers back to .remove() now with the better prototype;
 d) drop struct platform_driver::remove_new().

While this touches all drivers eventually twice, steps a) and c) can be
done one driver after another and so reduces coordination efforts
immensely and simplifies review.

Signed-off-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221209150914.3557650-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 7bbb89b4
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