Re: Incorrect Return Type for rdma_destroy_qp

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 01:30:54PM -0400, Omar Navarro Leija wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The man page has rdma_destroy_qp as:
> 
> #include <rdma/rdma_cma.h>
> void rdma_destroy_qp (struct rdma_cm_id *id);
> 
> 
> Note the void return type. Yet the return value section states:
> 
> Return Value
> Returns 0 on success, or -1 on error. If an error occurs, errno will
> be set to indicate the failure reason. Indeed the implementation is
> written as:
> 
> void rdma_destroy_qp(struct rdma_cm_id *id)
> {
> ibv_destroy_qp(id->qp);
> id->qp = NULL;
> ucma_destroy_cqs(id);
> }
> 
> I believe  rdma_destroy_qp should return an int which propagates the
> return value of calling ibv_destroy_qp. As a workaround, I just call
> ibv_destroy_qp directly.

It is worth to fix man pages.

Thanks

> 
> Omar