[PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: ucc_geth: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Jun 7 02:28:29 AEST 2023


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 (mostly) ignored
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.

Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.

Reviewed-by: Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c
index 7a4cb4f07c32..2b3a15f24e7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c
@@ -3753,7 +3753,7 @@ static int ucc_geth_probe(struct platform_device* ofdev)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static int ucc_geth_remove(struct platform_device* ofdev)
+static void ucc_geth_remove(struct platform_device* ofdev)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev = platform_get_drvdata(ofdev);
 	struct ucc_geth_private *ugeth = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -3767,8 +3767,6 @@ static int ucc_geth_remove(struct platform_device* ofdev)
 	of_node_put(ugeth->ug_info->phy_node);
 	kfree(ugeth->ug_info);
 	free_netdev(dev);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id ucc_geth_match[] = {
@@ -3787,7 +3785,7 @@ static struct platform_driver ucc_geth_driver = {
 		.of_match_table = ucc_geth_match,
 	},
 	.probe		= ucc_geth_probe,
-	.remove		= ucc_geth_remove,
+	.remove_new	= ucc_geth_remove,
 	.suspend	= ucc_geth_suspend,
 	.resume		= ucc_geth_resume,
 };
-- 
2.39.2



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