linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 08/14] irq: implement irq_send

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:40:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@...tec.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jason@...edaemon.net,
	marc.zyngier@....com, jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 08/14] irq: implement irq_send_ipi

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
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