Merge 5.13-rc4 into driver-core-next

We need the driver core fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/dma/qcom/hidma_mgmt.c b/drivers/dma/qcom/hidma_mgmt.c
index 806ca02c52d7..62026607f3f8 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/qcom/hidma_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/qcom/hidma_mgmt.c
@@ -418,8 +418,23 @@ static int __init hidma_mgmt_init(void)
 		hidma_mgmt_of_populate_channels(child);
 	}
 #endif
-	return platform_driver_register(&hidma_mgmt_driver);
+	/*
+	 * We do not check for return value here, as it is assumed that
+	 * platform_driver_register must not fail. The reason for this is that
+	 * the (potential) hidma_mgmt_of_populate_channels calls above are not
+	 * cleaned up if it does fail, and to do this work is quite
+	 * complicated. In particular, various calls of of_address_to_resource,
+	 * of_irq_to_resource, platform_device_register_full, of_dma_configure,
+	 * and of_msi_configure which then call other functions and so on, must
+	 * be cleaned up - this is not a trivial exercise.
+	 *
+	 * Currently, this module is not intended to be unloaded, and there is
+	 * no module_exit function defined which does the needed cleanup. For
+	 * this reason, we have to assume success here.
+	 */
+	platform_driver_register(&hidma_mgmt_driver);
 
+	return 0;
 }
 module_init(hidma_mgmt_init);
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");