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<title>linux.git/sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c, branch v7.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: Improve data consistency at polling</title>
<updated>2025-03-07T08:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T08:42:42+00:00</published>
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snd_seq_poll() calls snd_seq_write_pool_allocated() that reads out a
field in client-&gt;pool object, while it can be updated concurrently via
ioctls, as reported by syzbot.  The data race itself is harmless, as
it's merely a poll() call, and the state is volatile.  OTOH, the read
out of poll object info from the caller side is fragile, and we can
leave it better in snd_seq_pool_poll_wait() alone.

A similar pattern is seen in snd_seq_kernel_client_write_poll(), too,
which is called from the OSS sequencer.

This patch drops the pool checks from the caller side and add the
pool-&gt;lock in snd_seq_pool_poll_wait() for better data consistency.

Reported-by: syzbot+2d373c9936c00d7e120c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/67c88903.050a0220.15b4b9.0028.GAE@google.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307084246.29271-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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snd_seq_poll() calls snd_seq_write_pool_allocated() that reads out a
field in client-&gt;pool object, while it can be updated concurrently via
ioctls, as reported by syzbot.  The data race itself is harmless, as
it's merely a poll() call, and the state is volatile.  OTOH, the read
out of poll object info from the caller side is fragile, and we can
leave it better in snd_seq_pool_poll_wait() alone.

A similar pattern is seen in snd_seq_kernel_client_write_poll(), too,
which is called from the OSS sequencer.

This patch drops the pool checks from the caller side and add the
pool-&gt;lock in snd_seq_pool_poll_wait() for better data consistency.

Reported-by: syzbot+2d373c9936c00d7e120c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/67c88903.050a0220.15b4b9.0028.GAE@google.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250307084246.29271-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: memory: Use guard() for locking</title>
<updated>2024-02-28T14:01:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-27T08:52:55+00:00</published>
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We can simplify the code gracefully with new guard() macro and co for
automatic cleanup of locks.

Only the code refactoring, and no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240227085306.9764-14-tiwai@suse.de
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We can simplify the code gracefully with new guard() macro and co for
automatic cleanup of locks.

Only the code refactoring, and no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240227085306.9764-14-tiwai@suse.de
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: fix kvmalloc_array() arguments order</title>
<updated>2023-12-29T13:13:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Antipov</name>
<email>dmantipov@yandex.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-21T09:16:00+00:00</published>
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When compiling with gcc version 14.0.0 20231220 (experimental)
and W=1, I've noticed the following warning:

sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c: In function 'snd_seq_pool_init':
sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c:445:41: warning: 'kvmalloc_array' sizes specified with
'sizeof' in the earlier argument and not in the later argument [-Wcalloc-transposed-args]
  445 |         cellptr = kvmalloc_array(sizeof(struct snd_seq_event_cell), pool-&gt;size,
      |                                         ^~~~~~

Since 'n' and 'size' arguments of 'kvmalloc_array()' are multiplied
to calculate the final size, their actual order doesn't affect the
result and so this is not a bug. But it's still worth to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov &lt;dmantipov@yandex.ru&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221091605.14660-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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When compiling with gcc version 14.0.0 20231220 (experimental)
and W=1, I've noticed the following warning:

sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c: In function 'snd_seq_pool_init':
sound/core/seq/seq_memory.c:445:41: warning: 'kvmalloc_array' sizes specified with
'sizeof' in the earlier argument and not in the later argument [-Wcalloc-transposed-args]
  445 |         cellptr = kvmalloc_array(sizeof(struct snd_seq_event_cell), pool-&gt;size,
      |                                         ^~~~~~

Since 'n' and 'size' arguments of 'kvmalloc_array()' are multiplied
to calculate the final size, their actual order doesn't affect the
result and so this is not a bug. But it's still worth to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov &lt;dmantipov@yandex.ru&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221091605.14660-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: Fix snd_seq_expand_var_event() call to user-space</title>
<updated>2023-09-05T08:13:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-05T08:12:10+00:00</published>
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The recent fix to clear the padding bytes at
snd_seq_expand_var_event() broke the read to user-space with
in_kernel=0 parameter.  For user-space address, it has to use
clear_user() instead of memset().

Fixes: f80e6d60d677 ("ALSA: seq: Clear padded bytes at expanding events")
Reported-and-tested-by: Ash Holland &lt;ash@sorrel.sh&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8a555319-9f31-4ea2-878f-adc338bc40d4@sorrel.sh
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230905052631.18240-1-tiwai@suse.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230905081210.6731-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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The recent fix to clear the padding bytes at
snd_seq_expand_var_event() broke the read to user-space with
in_kernel=0 parameter.  For user-space address, it has to use
clear_user() instead of memset().

Fixes: f80e6d60d677 ("ALSA: seq: Clear padded bytes at expanding events")
Reported-and-tested-by: Ash Holland &lt;ash@sorrel.sh&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8a555319-9f31-4ea2-878f-adc338bc40d4@sorrel.sh
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230905052631.18240-1-tiwai@suse.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230905081210.6731-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: Add UMP support</title>
<updated>2023-05-23T10:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-23T07:53:46+00:00</published>
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Starting from this commit, we add the basic support of UMP (Universal
MIDI Packet) events on ALSA sequencer infrastructure.  The biggest
change here is that, for transferring UMP packets that are up to 128
bits, we extend the data payload of ALSA sequencer event record when
the client is declared to support for the new UMP events.

A new event flag bit, SNDRV_SEQ_EVENT_UMP, is defined and it shall be
set for the UMP packet events that have the larger payload of 128
bits, defined as struct snd_seq_ump_event.

For controlling the UMP feature enablement in kernel, a new Kconfig,
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_UMP is introduced.  The extended event for UMP is
available only when this Kconfig item is set.  Similarly, the size of
the internal snd_seq_event_cell also increases (in 4 bytes) when the
Kconfig item is set.  (But the size increase is effective only for
32bit architectures; 64bit archs already have padding there.)
Overall, when CONFIG_SND_SEQ_UMP isn't set, there is no change in the
event and cell, keeping the old sizes.

For applications that want to access the UMP packets, first of all, a
sequencer client has to declare the user-protocol to match with the
latest one via the new SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_USER_PVERSION; otherwise it's
treated as if a legacy client without UMP support.

Then the client can switch to the new UMP mode (MIDI 1.0 or MIDI 2.0)
with a new field, midi_version, in snd_seq_client_info.  When switched
to UMP mode (midi_version = 1 or 2), the client can write the UMP
events with SNDRV_SEQ_EVENT_UMP flag.  For reads, the alignment size
is changed from snd_seq_event (28 bytes) to snd_seq_ump_event (32
bytes).  When a UMP sequencer event is delivered to a legacy sequencer
client, it's ignored or handled as an error.

Conceptually, ALSA sequencer client and port correspond to the UMP
Endpoint and Group, respectively; each client may have multiple ports
and each port has the fixed number (16) of channels, total up to 256
channels.

As of this commit, ALSA sequencer core just sends and receives the UMP
events as-is from/to clients.  The automatic conversions between the
legacy events and the new UMP events will be implemented in a later
patch.

Along with this commit, bump the sequencer protocol version to 1.0.3.

Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523075358.9672-26-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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Starting from this commit, we add the basic support of UMP (Universal
MIDI Packet) events on ALSA sequencer infrastructure.  The biggest
change here is that, for transferring UMP packets that are up to 128
bits, we extend the data payload of ALSA sequencer event record when
the client is declared to support for the new UMP events.

A new event flag bit, SNDRV_SEQ_EVENT_UMP, is defined and it shall be
set for the UMP packet events that have the larger payload of 128
bits, defined as struct snd_seq_ump_event.

For controlling the UMP feature enablement in kernel, a new Kconfig,
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_UMP is introduced.  The extended event for UMP is
available only when this Kconfig item is set.  Similarly, the size of
the internal snd_seq_event_cell also increases (in 4 bytes) when the
Kconfig item is set.  (But the size increase is effective only for
32bit architectures; 64bit archs already have padding there.)
Overall, when CONFIG_SND_SEQ_UMP isn't set, there is no change in the
event and cell, keeping the old sizes.

For applications that want to access the UMP packets, first of all, a
sequencer client has to declare the user-protocol to match with the
latest one via the new SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_USER_PVERSION; otherwise it's
treated as if a legacy client without UMP support.

Then the client can switch to the new UMP mode (MIDI 1.0 or MIDI 2.0)
with a new field, midi_version, in snd_seq_client_info.  When switched
to UMP mode (midi_version = 1 or 2), the client can write the UMP
events with SNDRV_SEQ_EVENT_UMP flag.  For reads, the alignment size
is changed from snd_seq_event (28 bytes) to snd_seq_ump_event (32
bytes).  When a UMP sequencer event is delivered to a legacy sequencer
client, it's ignored or handled as an error.

Conceptually, ALSA sequencer client and port correspond to the UMP
Endpoint and Group, respectively; each client may have multiple ports
and each port has the fixed number (16) of channels, total up to 256
channels.

As of this commit, ALSA sequencer core just sends and receives the UMP
events as-is from/to clients.  The automatic conversions between the
legacy events and the new UMP events will be implemented in a later
patch.

Along with this commit, bump the sequencer protocol version to 1.0.3.

Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523075358.9672-26-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: Add snd_seq_expand_var_event_at() helper</title>
<updated>2023-05-23T10:11:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-23T07:53:39+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Create a new variant of snd_seq_expand_var_event() for expanding the
data starting from the given byte offset.  It'll be used by the new
UMP sequencer code later.

Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523075358.9672-19-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</content>
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Create a new variant of snd_seq_expand_var_event() for expanding the
data starting from the given byte offset.  It'll be used by the new
UMP sequencer code later.

Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523075358.9672-19-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: seq: Clear padded bytes at expanding events</title>
<updated>2023-05-23T10:11:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-23T07:53:38+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
There can be a small memory hole that may not be cleared at expanding
an event with the variable length type.  Make sure to clear it.

Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523075358.9672-18-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
There can be a small memory hole that may not be cleared at expanding
an event with the variable length type.  Make sure to clear it.

Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523075358.9672-18-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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