ALSA: control: Allow NULL passed to snd_ctl_remove()

There are lots of code checking NULL for kcontrol passed to
snd_ctl_remove() in the caller side.  Let's make snd_ctl_remove()
accepting the NULL kcontrol instead a la free(), so that we can clean
up the caller side.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240617100529.6667-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

sound/core/control.c

@@ -604,13 +604,16 @@ static inline int snd_ctl_remove_locked(struct snd_card *card,
  *
  * Removes the control from the card and then releases the instance.
  * You don't need to call snd_ctl_free_one().
+ * Passing NULL to @kcontrol argument is allowed as noop.
  *
  * Return: 0 if successful, or a negative error code on failure.
  *
  * Note that this function takes card->controls_rwsem lock internally.
  */
 int snd_ctl_remove(struct snd_card *card, struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol)
 {
+	if (!kcontrol)
+		return 0;
 	guard(rwsem_write)(&card->controls_rwsem);
 	return snd_ctl_remove_locked(card, kcontrol);
 }