Reviewing a fresh portion of coverity defects in USB core
(specifically CID 1458999), Alan Stern noted below in [1]:

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 02:39:23PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
 > A revised search finds line 997 in drivers/usb/core/hub.c and lines
 > 216, 269 in drivers/usb/core/port.c.  (I didn't try looking in any
 > other directories.)  AFAICT all three of these should check the
 > return value, although a error message in the kernel log probably
 > isn't needed.

Factor out the usb_remove_device() change into a standalone patch to
allow conflict-free integration on top of the earliest stable branches.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2002251419120.1485-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org

Fixes: 253e0572 ("USB: add a "remove hardware" sysfs attribute")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.33+
Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226175036.14946-2-erosca@de.adit-jv.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>