On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Qais Yousef wrote: Lacks kerneldoc > +int __irq_desc_send_ipi(struct irq_desc *desc, const struct ipi_mask *dest) > +{ > + struct irq_data *data = irq_desc_get_irq_data(desc); > + struct irq_chip *chip = irq_data_get_irq_chip(data); > + > + if (!chip || !chip->irq_send_ipi) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + /* > + * Do not validate the mask for IPIs marked global. These are > + * regular IPIs so we can avoid the operation as their target > + * mask is the cpu_possible_mask. > + */ > + if (!dest->global) { > + if (!bitmap_subset(dest->cpumask, data->ipi_mask.cpumask, > + dest->nbits)) > + return -EINVAL; > + } This looks half thought out. You rely on the caller getting the global bit right. There should be a sanity check for this versus data->ipi_mask and also you need to validate nbits. > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(irq_send_ipi); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL please Thanks, tglx