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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: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221209150914.3557650-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: c766c90faf ("media: rcar_fdp1: Fix refcount leak in probe and remove function")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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