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[rdma-next,V3,1/5] RDMA/netlink: Remove netlink clients infrastructure

Message ID 20170627050028.17902-2-leon@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Commit Message

Leon Romanovsky June 27, 2017, 5 a.m. UTC
From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>

RDMA netlink has complicated infrastructure to add and remove netlink
clients to NETLINK_RDMA family. This complicates the code and not in
use because not many clients are available (3 clients) and most of them
(2 clients) are statically compiled together with netlink.c.

The following patch refactors RDMA netlink and opens door for the future
patches which will be able to get rid of a lot of dead iwcm* code.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Chien Tin Tung <chien.tin.tung@intel.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c       |   6 +-
 drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h |   4 +-
 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c    |  41 ++------
 drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c      |  10 +-
 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c   | 185 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
 include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h         |  13 +--
 6 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-)

--
2.13.1

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Comments

Dennis Dalessandro July 17, 2017, 2:02 p.m. UTC | #1
On 6/27/2017 1:00 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> 
> RDMA netlink has complicated infrastructure to add and remove netlink
> clients to NETLINK_RDMA family. This complicates the code and not in
> use because not many clients are available (3 clients) and most of them
> (2 clients) are statically compiled together with netlink.c.

So here you say there are three clients.

> -	struct ibnl_client *cur;
> -	struct ibnl_client *nl_client;
> +	static const unsigned int max_num_ops[RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS - 1] = {
> +				  RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM_NUM_OPS,
> +				  RDMA_NL_IWPM_NUM_OPS,
> +				  0,
> +				  RDMA_NL_LS_NUM_OPS,
> +				  0 };
> 
> -	nl_client = kmalloc(sizeof *nl_client, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!nl_client)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	/*
> +	 * This BUILD_BUG_ON is intended to catch addition of new
> +	 * RDMA netlink protocol without updating the array above.
> +	 */
> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS != 6);

Yet we are checking for 6? Can you elaborate here.

-Denny
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Leon Romanovsky July 17, 2017, 2:54 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:02:07AM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> On 6/27/2017 1:00 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> >
> > RDMA netlink has complicated infrastructure to add and remove netlink
> > clients to NETLINK_RDMA family. This complicates the code and not in
> > use because not many clients are available (3 clients) and most of them
> > (2 clients) are statically compiled together with netlink.c.
>
> So here you say there are three clients.
>
> > -	struct ibnl_client *cur;
> > -	struct ibnl_client *nl_client;
> > +	static const unsigned int max_num_ops[RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS - 1] = {
> > +				  RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM_NUM_OPS,
> > +				  RDMA_NL_IWPM_NUM_OPS,
> > +				  0,
> > +				  RDMA_NL_LS_NUM_OPS,
> > +				  0 };
> >
> > -	nl_client = kmalloc(sizeof *nl_client, GFP_KERNEL);
> > -	if (!nl_client)
> > -		return -ENOMEM;
> > +	/*
> > +	 * This BUILD_BUG_ON is intended to catch addition of new
> > +	 * RDMA netlink protocol without updating the array above.
> > +	 */
> > +	BUILD_BUG_ON(RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS != 6);
>
> Yet we are checking for 6? Can you elaborate here.

This check is needed to ensure that the array is properly initialized.

The clients were exposed in include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h, in the
following enum:

  6 enum {
  7         RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM = 1,
  8         RDMA_NL_IWCM,
  9         RDMA_NL_RSVD,
 10         RDMA_NL_LS,     /* RDMA Local Services */
 11         RDMA_NL_I40IW,
 12         RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS
 13 };

First of all it starts from 1, second we have RDMA_NL_RSVD and
RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS which exposed, but are not real clients, because
nothing is handled them

It leads for RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS == 6 and this is why I'm checking for 6.

>
> -Denny
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Dennis Dalessandro July 17, 2017, 3:16 p.m. UTC | #3
On 7/17/2017 10:54 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 10:02:07AM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
>> On 6/27/2017 1:00 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
>>>
>>> RDMA netlink has complicated infrastructure to add and remove netlink
>>> clients to NETLINK_RDMA family. This complicates the code and not in
>>> use because not many clients are available (3 clients) and most of them
>>> (2 clients) are statically compiled together with netlink.c.
>>
>> So here you say there are three clients.
>>
>>> -	struct ibnl_client *cur;
>>> -	struct ibnl_client *nl_client;
>>> +	static const unsigned int max_num_ops[RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS - 1] = {
>>> +				  RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM_NUM_OPS,
>>> +				  RDMA_NL_IWPM_NUM_OPS,
>>> +				  0,
>>> +				  RDMA_NL_LS_NUM_OPS,
>>> +				  0 };
>>>
>>> -	nl_client = kmalloc(sizeof *nl_client, GFP_KERNEL);
>>> -	if (!nl_client)
>>> -		return -ENOMEM;
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * This BUILD_BUG_ON is intended to catch addition of new
>>> +	 * RDMA netlink protocol without updating the array above.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	BUILD_BUG_ON(RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS != 6);
>>
>> Yet we are checking for 6? Can you elaborate here.
> 
> This check is needed to ensure that the array is properly initialized.
> 
> The clients were exposed in include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h, in the
> following enum:
> 
>    6 enum {
>    7         RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM = 1,
>    8         RDMA_NL_IWCM,
>    9         RDMA_NL_RSVD,
>   10         RDMA_NL_LS,     /* RDMA Local Services */
>   11         RDMA_NL_I40IW,
>   12         RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS
>   13 };
> 
> First of all it starts from 1, second we have RDMA_NL_RSVD and
> RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS which exposed, but are not real clients, because
> nothing is handled them
> 
> It leads for RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS == 6 and this is why I'm checking for 6.
> 

Makes sense now.

-Denny
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
index 31bb82d8ecd7..350aa78d08b2 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
@@ -4530,9 +4530,7 @@  static int __init cma_init(void)
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;

-	if (ibnl_add_client(RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM, ARRAY_SIZE(cma_cb_table),
-			    cma_cb_table))
-		pr_warn("RDMA CMA: failed to add netlink callback\n");
+	rdma_nl_register(RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM, cma_cb_table);
 	cma_configfs_init();

 	return 0;
@@ -4549,7 +4547,7 @@  static int __init cma_init(void)
 static void __exit cma_cleanup(void)
 {
 	cma_configfs_exit();
-	ibnl_remove_client(RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM);
+	rdma_nl_unregister(RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM);
 	ib_unregister_client(&cma_client);
 	unregister_netdevice_notifier(&cma_nb);
 	rdma_addr_unregister_client(&addr_client);
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h b/drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h
index d92ab4eaa8f3..ce0f90fc7b3e 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@  void ib_mad_cleanup(void);
 int ib_sa_init(void);
 void ib_sa_cleanup(void);

-int ibnl_init(void);
-void ibnl_cleanup(void);
+int rdma_nl_init(void);
+void rdma_nl_exit(void);

 /**
  * Check if there are any listeners to the netlink group
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
index 81d447da0048..5c70ea49d5ad 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
@@ -1008,29 +1008,15 @@  struct net_device *ib_get_net_dev_by_params(struct ib_device *dev,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_get_net_dev_by_params);

-static struct ibnl_client_cbs ibnl_ls_cb_table[] = {
+static const struct ibnl_client_cbs ibnl_ls_cb_table[] = {
 	[RDMA_NL_LS_OP_RESOLVE] = {
-		.dump = ib_nl_handle_resolve_resp,
-		.module = THIS_MODULE },
+		.dump = ib_nl_handle_resolve_resp},
 	[RDMA_NL_LS_OP_SET_TIMEOUT] = {
-		.dump = ib_nl_handle_set_timeout,
-		.module = THIS_MODULE },
+		.dump = ib_nl_handle_set_timeout},
 	[RDMA_NL_LS_OP_IP_RESOLVE] = {
-		.dump = ib_nl_handle_ip_res_resp,
-		.module = THIS_MODULE },
+		.dump = ib_nl_handle_ip_res_resp},
 };

-static int ib_add_ibnl_clients(void)
-{
-	return ibnl_add_client(RDMA_NL_LS, ARRAY_SIZE(ibnl_ls_cb_table),
-			       ibnl_ls_cb_table);
-}
-
-static void ib_remove_ibnl_clients(void)
-{
-	ibnl_remove_client(RDMA_NL_LS);
-}
-
 static int __init ib_core_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -1052,9 +1038,9 @@  static int __init ib_core_init(void)
 		goto err_comp;
 	}

-	ret = ibnl_init();
+	ret = rdma_nl_init();
 	if (ret) {
-		pr_warn("Couldn't init IB netlink interface\n");
+		pr_warn("Couldn't init IB netlink interface %d\n", ret);
 		goto err_sysfs;
 	}

@@ -1076,24 +1062,17 @@  static int __init ib_core_init(void)
 		goto err_mad;
 	}

-	ret = ib_add_ibnl_clients();
-	if (ret) {
-		pr_warn("Couldn't register ibnl clients\n");
-		goto err_sa;
-	}
-
+	rdma_nl_register(RDMA_NL_LS, ibnl_ls_cb_table);
 	ib_cache_setup();

 	return 0;

-err_sa:
-	ib_sa_cleanup();
 err_mad:
 	ib_mad_cleanup();
 err_addr:
 	addr_cleanup();
 err_ibnl:
-	ibnl_cleanup();
+	rdma_nl_exit();
 err_sysfs:
 	class_unregister(&ib_class);
 err_comp:
@@ -1106,11 +1085,11 @@  static int __init ib_core_init(void)
 static void __exit ib_core_cleanup(void)
 {
 	ib_cache_cleanup();
-	ib_remove_ibnl_clients();
+	rdma_nl_unregister(RDMA_NL_LS);
 	ib_sa_cleanup();
 	ib_mad_cleanup();
 	addr_cleanup();
-	ibnl_cleanup();
+	rdma_nl_exit();
 	class_unregister(&ib_class);
 	destroy_workqueue(ib_comp_wq);
 	/* Make sure that any pending umem accounting work is done. */
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
index 31661b5c1743..8599271d8be6 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
@@ -1175,12 +1175,8 @@  static int __init iw_cm_init(void)
 	ret = iwpm_init(RDMA_NL_IWCM);
 	if (ret)
 		pr_err("iw_cm: couldn't init iwpm\n");
-
-	ret = ibnl_add_client(RDMA_NL_IWCM, ARRAY_SIZE(iwcm_nl_cb_table),
-			      iwcm_nl_cb_table);
-	if (ret)
-		pr_err("iw_cm: couldn't register netlink callbacks\n");
-
+	else
+		rdma_nl_register(RDMA_NL_IWCM, iwcm_nl_cb_table);
 	iwcm_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("iw_cm_wq", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
 	if (!iwcm_wq)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1200,7 +1196,7 @@  static void __exit iw_cm_cleanup(void)
 {
 	unregister_net_sysctl_table(iwcm_ctl_table_hdr);
 	destroy_workqueue(iwcm_wq);
-	ibnl_remove_client(RDMA_NL_IWCM);
+	rdma_nl_unregister(RDMA_NL_IWCM);
 	iwpm_exit(RDMA_NL_IWCM);
 }

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
index 454d51e432db..31f4d33149bc 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
@@ -39,16 +39,13 @@ 
 #include <rdma/rdma_netlink.h>
 #include "core_priv.h"

-struct ibnl_client {
-	struct list_head		list;
-	int				index;
-	int				nops;
-	const struct ibnl_client_cbs   *cb_table;
-};
+#include "core_priv.h"

-static DEFINE_MUTEX(ibnl_mutex);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(rdma_nl_mutex);
 static struct sock *nls;
-static LIST_HEAD(client_list);
+static struct {
+	const struct ibnl_client_cbs   *cb_table;
+} rdma_nl_types[RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS];

 int ibnl_chk_listeners(unsigned int group)
 {
@@ -57,58 +54,74 @@  int ibnl_chk_listeners(unsigned int group)
 	return 0;
 }

-int ibnl_add_client(int index, int nops,
-		    const struct ibnl_client_cbs cb_table[])
+static bool is_nl_msg_valid(unsigned int type, unsigned int op)
 {
-	struct ibnl_client *cur;
-	struct ibnl_client *nl_client;
+	static const unsigned int max_num_ops[RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS - 1] = {
+				  RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM_NUM_OPS,
+				  RDMA_NL_IWPM_NUM_OPS,
+				  0,
+				  RDMA_NL_LS_NUM_OPS,
+				  0 };

-	nl_client = kmalloc(sizeof *nl_client, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!nl_client)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	/*
+	 * This BUILD_BUG_ON is intended to catch addition of new
+	 * RDMA netlink protocol without updating the array above.
+	 */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS != 6);

-	nl_client->index	= index;
-	nl_client->nops		= nops;
-	nl_client->cb_table	= cb_table;
+	if (type > RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS - 1)
+		return false;

-	mutex_lock(&ibnl_mutex);
+	return (op < max_num_ops[type - 1]) ? true : false;
+}

-	list_for_each_entry(cur, &client_list, list) {
-		if (cur->index == index) {
-			pr_warn("Client for %d already exists\n", index);
-			mutex_unlock(&ibnl_mutex);
-			kfree(nl_client);
-			return -EINVAL;
-		}
-	}
+static bool is_nl_valid(unsigned int type, unsigned int op)
+{
+	if (!is_nl_msg_valid(type, op) ||
+	    !rdma_nl_types[type].cb_table ||
+	    !rdma_nl_types[type].cb_table[op].dump)
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}

-	list_add_tail(&nl_client->list, &client_list);
+void rdma_nl_register(unsigned int index,
+		      const struct ibnl_client_cbs cb_table[])
+{
+	mutex_lock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
+	if (!is_nl_msg_valid(index, 0)) {
+		/*
+		 * All clients are not interesting in success/failure of
+		 * this call. They want to see the print to error log and
+		 * continue their initialization. Print warning for them,
+		 * because it is programmer's error to be here.
+		 */
+		mutex_unlock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
+		WARN(true,
+		     "The not-valid %u index was supplied to RDMA netlink\n",
+		     index);
+		return;
+	}

-	mutex_unlock(&ibnl_mutex);
+	if (rdma_nl_types[index].cb_table) {
+		mutex_unlock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
+		WARN(true,
+		     "The %u index is already registered in RDMA netlink\n",
+		     index);
+		return;
+	}

-	return 0;
+	rdma_nl_types[index].cb_table = cb_table;
+	mutex_unlock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(ibnl_add_client);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(rdma_nl_register);

-int ibnl_remove_client(int index)
+void rdma_nl_unregister(unsigned int index)
 {
-	struct ibnl_client *cur, *next;
-
-	mutex_lock(&ibnl_mutex);
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(cur, next, &client_list, list) {
-		if (cur->index == index) {
-			list_del(&(cur->list));
-			mutex_unlock(&ibnl_mutex);
-			kfree(cur);
-			return 0;
-		}
-	}
-	pr_warn("Can't remove callback for client idx %d. Not found\n", index);
-	mutex_unlock(&ibnl_mutex);
-
-	return -EINVAL;
+	mutex_lock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
+	rdma_nl_types[index].cb_table = NULL;
+	mutex_unlock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(ibnl_remove_client);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(rdma_nl_unregister);

 void *ibnl_put_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr **nlh, int seq,
 		   int len, int client, int op, int flags)
@@ -149,45 +162,31 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(ibnl_put_attr);
 static int ibnl_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 			struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
 {
-	struct ibnl_client *client;
 	int type = nlh->nlmsg_type;
-	int index = RDMA_NL_GET_CLIENT(type);
+	unsigned int index = RDMA_NL_GET_CLIENT(type);
 	unsigned int op = RDMA_NL_GET_OP(type);
+	struct netlink_callback cb = {};
+	struct netlink_dump_control c = {};

-	list_for_each_entry(client, &client_list, list) {
-		if (client->index == index) {
-			if (op >= client->nops || !client->cb_table[op].dump)
-				return -EINVAL;
-
-			/*
-			 * For response or local service set_timeout request,
-			 * there is no need to use netlink_dump_start.
-			 */
-			if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST) ||
-			    (index == RDMA_NL_LS &&
-			     op == RDMA_NL_LS_OP_SET_TIMEOUT)) {
-				struct netlink_callback cb = {
-					.skb = skb,
-					.nlh = nlh,
-					.dump = client->cb_table[op].dump,
-					.module = client->cb_table[op].module,
-				};
-
-				return cb.dump(skb, &cb);
-			}
-
-			{
-				struct netlink_dump_control c = {
-					.dump = client->cb_table[op].dump,
-					.module = client->cb_table[op].module,
-				};
-				return netlink_dump_start(nls, skb, nlh, &c);
-			}
-		}
+	if (!is_nl_valid(index, op))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/*
+	 * For response or local service set_timeout request,
+	 * there is no need to use netlink_dump_start.
+	 */
+	if (!(nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REQUEST) ||
+	    (index == RDMA_NL_LS && op == RDMA_NL_LS_OP_SET_TIMEOUT)) {
+		cb.skb = skb;
+		cb.nlh = nlh;
+		cb.dump = rdma_nl_types[index].cb_table[op].dump;
+		cb.module = rdma_nl_types[index].cb_table[op].module;
+		return cb.dump(skb, &cb);
 	}

-	pr_info("Index %d wasn't found in client list\n", index);
-	return -EINVAL;
+	c.dump = rdma_nl_types[index].cb_table[op].dump;
+	c.module = rdma_nl_types[index].cb_table[op].module;
+	return netlink_dump_start(nls, skb, nlh, &c);
 }

 static void ibnl_rcv_reply_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
@@ -221,10 +220,10 @@  static void ibnl_rcv_reply_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)

 static void ibnl_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	mutex_lock(&ibnl_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
 	ibnl_rcv_reply_skb(skb);
 	netlink_rcv_skb(skb, &ibnl_rcv_msg);
-	mutex_unlock(&ibnl_mutex);
+	mutex_unlock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
 }

 int ibnl_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
@@ -241,31 +240,25 @@  int ibnl_multicast(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ibnl_multicast);

-int __init ibnl_init(void)
+int __init rdma_nl_init(void)
 {
 	struct netlink_kernel_cfg cfg = {
 		.input	= ibnl_rcv,
 	};

 	nls = netlink_kernel_create(&init_net, NETLINK_RDMA, &cfg);
-	if (!nls) {
-		pr_warn("Failed to create netlink socket\n");
+	if (!nls)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}

 	return 0;
 }

-void ibnl_cleanup(void)
+void rdma_nl_exit(void)
 {
-	struct ibnl_client *cur, *next;
+	int idx;

-	mutex_lock(&ibnl_mutex);
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(cur, next, &client_list, list) {
-		list_del(&(cur->list));
-		kfree(cur);
-	}
-	mutex_unlock(&ibnl_mutex);
+	for (idx = 0; idx < RDMA_NL_NUM_CLIENTS; idx++)
+		rdma_nl_unregister(idx);

 	netlink_kernel_release(nls);
 }
diff --git a/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h b/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
index 348c102cb5f6..162e58f118e7 100644
--- a/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
+++ b/include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h
@@ -11,23 +11,18 @@  struct ibnl_client_cbs {
 };

 /**
- * Add a a client to the list of IB netlink exporters.
+ * Register client in RDMA netlink.
  * @index: Index of the added client
- * @nops: Number of supported ops by the added client.
  * @cb_table: A table for op->callback
- *
- * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code.
  */
-int ibnl_add_client(int index, int nops,
-		    const struct ibnl_client_cbs cb_table[]);
+void rdma_nl_register(unsigned int index,
+		      const struct ibnl_client_cbs cb_table[]);

 /**
  * Remove a client from IB netlink.
  * @index: Index of the removed IB client.
- *
- * Returns 0 on success or a negative error code.
  */
-int ibnl_remove_client(int index);
+void rdma_nl_unregister(unsigned int index);

 /**
  * Put a new message in a supplied skb.