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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/sound/pcm.h, branch v5.18</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ALSA: pcm: Fix potential AB/BA lock with buffer_mutex and mmap_lock</title>
<updated>2022-03-30T12:29:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-30T12:09:03+00:00</published>
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syzbot caught a potential deadlock between the PCM
runtime-&gt;buffer_mutex and the mm-&gt;mmap_lock.  It was brought by the
recent fix to cover the racy read/write and other ioctls, and in that
commit, I overlooked a (hopefully only) corner case that may take the
revert lock, namely, the OSS mmap.  The OSS mmap operation
exceptionally allows to re-configure the parameters inside the OSS
mmap syscall, where mm-&gt;mmap_mutex is already held.  Meanwhile, the
copy_from/to_user calls at read/write operations also take the
mm-&gt;mmap_lock internally, hence it may lead to a AB/BA deadlock.

A similar problem was already seen in the past and we fixed it with a
refcount (in commit b248371628aa).  The former fix covered only the
call paths with OSS read/write and OSS ioctls, while we need to cover
the concurrent access via both ALSA and OSS APIs now.

This patch addresses the problem above by replacing the buffer_mutex
lock in the read/write operations with a refcount similar as we've
used for OSS.  The new field, runtime-&gt;buffer_accessing, keeps the
number of concurrent read/write operations.  Unlike the former
buffer_mutex protection, this protects only around the
copy_from/to_user() calls; the other codes are basically protected by
the PCM stream lock.  The refcount can be a negative, meaning blocked
by the ioctls.  If a negative value is seen, the read/write aborts
with -EBUSY.  In the ioctl side, OTOH, they check this refcount, too,
and set to a negative value for blocking unless it's already being
accessed.

Reported-by: syzbot+6e5c88838328e99c7e1c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: dca947d4d26d ("ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent read/write and buffer changes")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000381a0d05db622a81@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220330120903.4738-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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syzbot caught a potential deadlock between the PCM
runtime-&gt;buffer_mutex and the mm-&gt;mmap_lock.  It was brought by the
recent fix to cover the racy read/write and other ioctls, and in that
commit, I overlooked a (hopefully only) corner case that may take the
revert lock, namely, the OSS mmap.  The OSS mmap operation
exceptionally allows to re-configure the parameters inside the OSS
mmap syscall, where mm-&gt;mmap_mutex is already held.  Meanwhile, the
copy_from/to_user calls at read/write operations also take the
mm-&gt;mmap_lock internally, hence it may lead to a AB/BA deadlock.

A similar problem was already seen in the past and we fixed it with a
refcount (in commit b248371628aa).  The former fix covered only the
call paths with OSS read/write and OSS ioctls, while we need to cover
the concurrent access via both ALSA and OSS APIs now.

This patch addresses the problem above by replacing the buffer_mutex
lock in the read/write operations with a refcount similar as we've
used for OSS.  The new field, runtime-&gt;buffer_accessing, keeps the
number of concurrent read/write operations.  Unlike the former
buffer_mutex protection, this protects only around the
copy_from/to_user() calls; the other codes are basically protected by
the PCM stream lock.  The refcount can be a negative, meaning blocked
by the ioctls.  If a negative value is seen, the read/write aborts
with -EBUSY.  In the ioctl side, OTOH, they check this refcount, too,
and set to a negative value for blocking unless it's already being
accessed.

Reported-by: syzbot+6e5c88838328e99c7e1c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: dca947d4d26d ("ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent read/write and buffer changes")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000381a0d05db622a81@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220330120903.4738-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ALSA: pcm: Fix races among concurrent hw_params and hw_free calls</title>
<updated>2022-03-22T19:56:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-22T17:07:17+00:00</published>
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Currently we have neither proper check nor protection against the
concurrent calls of PCM hw_params and hw_free ioctls, which may result
in a UAF.  Since the existing PCM stream lock can't be used for
protecting the whole ioctl operations, we need a new mutex to protect
those racy calls.

This patch introduced a new mutex, runtime-&gt;buffer_mutex, and applies
it to both hw_params and hw_free ioctl code paths.  Along with it, the
both functions are slightly modified (the mmap_count check is moved
into the state-check block) for code simplicity.

Reported-by: Hu Jiahui &lt;kirin.say@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322170720.3529-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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Currently we have neither proper check nor protection against the
concurrent calls of PCM hw_params and hw_free ioctls, which may result
in a UAF.  Since the existing PCM stream lock can't be used for
protecting the whole ioctl operations, we need a new mutex to protect
those racy calls.

This patch introduced a new mutex, runtime-&gt;buffer_mutex, and applies
it to both hw_params and hw_free ioctl code paths.  Along with it, the
both functions are slightly modified (the mmap_count check is moved
into the state-check block) for code simplicity.

Reported-by: Hu Jiahui &lt;kirin.say@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322170720.3529-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asoc-fix-v5.17-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus</title>
<updated>2022-02-01T15:52:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-01T15:52:54+00:00</published>
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ASoC: Fixes for v5.17

Quite a few fixes here, including an unusually large set in the core
spurred on by various testing efforts as well as the usual small driver
fixes.  There are quite a few fixes for out of bounds writes in both the
core and the various Qualcomm drivers, plus a couple of fixes for
locking in the DPCM code.
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ASoC: Fixes for v5.17

Quite a few fixes here, including an unusually large set in the core
spurred on by various testing efforts as well as the usual small driver
fixes.  There are quite a few fixes for out of bounds writes in both the
core and the various Qualcomm drivers, plus a couple of fixes for
locking in the DPCM code.
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<entry>
<title>ASoC: soc-pcm: Fix DPCM lockdep warning due to nested stream locks</title>
<updated>2022-01-28T15:59:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-19T15:52:48+00:00</published>
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The recent change for DPCM locking caused spurious lockdep warnings.
Actually the warnings are false-positive, as those are triggered due
to the nested stream locks for FE and BE.  Since both locks belong to
the same lock class, lockdep sees it as if a deadlock.

For fixing this, we need to take PCM stream locks for BE with the
nested lock primitives.  Since currently snd_pcm_stream_lock*() helper
assumes only the top-level single locking, a new helper function
snd_pcm_stream_lock_irqsave_nested() is defined for a single-depth
nested lock, which is now used in the BE DAI trigger that is always
performed inside a FE stream lock.

Fixes: b2ae80663008 ("ASoC: soc-pcm: serialize BE triggers")
Reported-and-tested-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/73018f3c-9769-72ea-0325-b3f8e2381e30@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/9a0abddd-49e9-872d-2f00-a1697340f786@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220119155249.26754-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
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The recent change for DPCM locking caused spurious lockdep warnings.
Actually the warnings are false-positive, as those are triggered due
to the nested stream locks for FE and BE.  Since both locks belong to
the same lock class, lockdep sees it as if a deadlock.

For fixing this, we need to take PCM stream locks for BE with the
nested lock primitives.  Since currently snd_pcm_stream_lock*() helper
assumes only the top-level single locking, a new helper function
snd_pcm_stream_lock_irqsave_nested() is defined for a single-depth
nested lock, which is now used in the BE DAI trigger that is always
performed inside a FE stream lock.

Fixes: b2ae80663008 ("ASoC: soc-pcm: serialize BE triggers")
Reported-and-tested-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/73018f3c-9769-72ea-0325-b3f8e2381e30@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/alsa-devel/9a0abddd-49e9-872d-2f00-a1697340f786@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220119155249.26754-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: pcm: comment about relation between msbits hw parameter and [S|U]32 formats</title>
<updated>2021-12-13T07:18:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Sakamoto</name>
<email>o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-29T03:33:53+00:00</published>
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Regarding to handling [U|S][32|24] PCM formats, many userspace
application developers and driver developers have confusion, since they
require them to understand justification or padding. It easily
loses consistency and soundness to operate with many type of devices. In
this commit, I attempt to solve the situation by adding comment about
relation between [S|U]32 formats and 'msbits' hardware parameter.

The formats are used for 'left-justified' sample format, and the available
bit count in most significant bit is delivered to userspace in msbits
hardware parameter (struct snd_pcm_hw_params.msbits), which is decided by
msbits constraint added by pcm drivers (snd_pcm_hw_constraint_msbits()).

In driver side, the msbits constraint includes two elements; the physical
width of format and the available width of the format in most significant
bit. The former is used to match SAMPLE_BITS of format. (For my
convenience, I ignore wildcard in the usage of the constraint.)

As a result of interaction between ALSA pcm core and ALSA pcm application,
when the format in which SAMPLE_BITS equals to physical width of the
msbits constaint, the msbits parameter is set by referring to the
available width of the constraint. When the msbits parameter is not
changed in the above process, ALSA pcm core set it alternatively with
SAMPLE_BIT of chosen format.

In userspace application side, the msbits is only available after calling
ioctl(2) with SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS request. Even if the hardware
parameter structure includes somewhat value of SAMPLE_BITS interval
parameter as width of format, all of the width is not always available
since msbits can be less than the width.

I note that [S|U]24 formats are used for 'right-justified' 24 bit sample
formats within 32 bit frame. The first byte in most significant bit
should be invalidated. Although the msbits exposed to userspace should be
zero as invalid value, actually it is 32 from physical width of format.

[ corrected typos -- tiwai ]

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto &lt;o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210529033353.21641-1-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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Regarding to handling [U|S][32|24] PCM formats, many userspace
application developers and driver developers have confusion, since they
require them to understand justification or padding. It easily
loses consistency and soundness to operate with many type of devices. In
this commit, I attempt to solve the situation by adding comment about
relation between [S|U]32 formats and 'msbits' hardware parameter.

The formats are used for 'left-justified' sample format, and the available
bit count in most significant bit is delivered to userspace in msbits
hardware parameter (struct snd_pcm_hw_params.msbits), which is decided by
msbits constraint added by pcm drivers (snd_pcm_hw_constraint_msbits()).

In driver side, the msbits constraint includes two elements; the physical
width of format and the available width of the format in most significant
bit. The former is used to match SAMPLE_BITS of format. (For my
convenience, I ignore wildcard in the usage of the constraint.)

As a result of interaction between ALSA pcm core and ALSA pcm application,
when the format in which SAMPLE_BITS equals to physical width of the
msbits constaint, the msbits parameter is set by referring to the
available width of the constraint. When the msbits parameter is not
changed in the above process, ALSA pcm core set it alternatively with
SAMPLE_BIT of chosen format.

In userspace application side, the msbits is only available after calling
ioctl(2) with SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS request. Even if the hardware
parameter structure includes somewhat value of SAMPLE_BITS interval
parameter as width of format, all of the width is not always available
since msbits can be less than the width.

I note that [S|U]24 formats are used for 'right-justified' 24 bit sample
formats within 32 bit frame. The first byte in most significant bit
should be invalidated. Although the msbits exposed to userspace should be
zero as invalid value, actually it is 32 from physical width of format.

[ corrected typos -- tiwai ]

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto &lt;o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210529033353.21641-1-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ALSA: pcm: Allow exact buffer preallocation</title>
<updated>2021-08-04T06:08:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-02T07:28:03+00:00</published>
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A few drivers want to have rather the exact buffer preallocation at
the driver probe time and keep using it for the whole operations
without allowing dynamic buffer allocation.  For satisfying the
demands, this patch extends the managed buffer allocation API
slightly.

Namely, when 0 is passed to max argument of the allocation helper
functions snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer*(), it treats as if the fixed
size allocation of the given size.  If the pre-allocation fails in
this mode, the function returns now -ENOMEM.  Otherwise, i.e. max
argument is non-zero, the function never returns -ENOMEM but tries to
fall back to the smaller chunks and allows the dynamic allocation
later -- which is still the default behavior until now.

For more intuitive use, also two new helpers are added for handling
the fixed size buffer allocation, too: snd_pcm_set_fixed_buffer() and
snd_pcm_set_fixed_buffer_all().

Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802072815.13551-4-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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A few drivers want to have rather the exact buffer preallocation at
the driver probe time and keep using it for the whole operations
without allowing dynamic buffer allocation.  For satisfying the
demands, this patch extends the managed buffer allocation API
slightly.

Namely, when 0 is passed to max argument of the allocation helper
functions snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer*(), it treats as if the fixed
size allocation of the given size.  If the pre-allocation fails in
this mode, the function returns now -ENOMEM.  Otherwise, i.e. max
argument is non-zero, the function never returns -ENOMEM but tries to
fall back to the smaller chunks and allows the dynamic allocation
later -- which is still the default behavior until now.

For more intuitive use, also two new helpers are added for handling
the fixed size buffer allocation, too: snd_pcm_set_fixed_buffer() and
snd_pcm_set_fixed_buffer_all().

Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802072815.13551-4-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: core: Abstract memory alloc helpers</title>
<updated>2021-06-10T08:15:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-09T16:25:49+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces the ops table to each memory allocation type
(SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_XXX) and abstract the handling for the better code
management.  Then we get separate the page allocation, release and
other tasks for each type, especially for the SG buffer.

Each buffer type has now callbacks in the struct snd_malloc_ops, and
the common helper functions call those ops accordingly.  The former
inline code that is specific to SG-buffer is moved into the local
sgbuf.c, and we can simplify the PCM code without details of memory
handling.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609162551.7842-4-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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This patch introduces the ops table to each memory allocation type
(SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_XXX) and abstract the handling for the better code
management.  Then we get separate the page allocation, release and
other tasks for each type, especially for the SG buffer.

Each buffer type has now callbacks in the struct snd_malloc_ops, and
the common helper functions call those ops accordingly.  The former
inline code that is specific to SG-buffer is moved into the local
sgbuf.c, and we can simplify the PCM code without details of memory
handling.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609162551.7842-4-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: core: Drop snd_sgbuf_get_ptr()</title>
<updated>2021-06-10T08:15:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-09T16:25:48+00:00</published>
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snd_sgbuf_get_ptr() and its sibling snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_ptr() are no
longer used by any drivers.  Let's drop them.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609162551.7842-3-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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snd_sgbuf_get_ptr() and its sibling snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_ptr() are no
longer used by any drivers.  Let's drop them.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609162551.7842-3-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ALSA: pcm: add snd_pcm_period_elapsed() variant without acquiring lock of PCM substream</title>
<updated>2021-06-10T07:49:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Sakamoto</name>
<email>o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-10T03:17:31+00:00</published>
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Current implementation of ALSA PCM core has a kernel API,
snd_pcm_period_elapsed(), for drivers to queue event to awaken processes
from waiting for available frames. The function voluntarily acquires lock
of PCM substream, therefore it is not called in process context for any
PCM operation since the lock is already acquired.

It is convenient for packet-oriented driver, at least for drivers to audio
and music unit in IEEE 1394 bus. The drivers are allowed by Linux
FireWire subsystem to process isochronous packets queued till recent
isochronous cycle in process context in any time.

This commit adds snd_pcm_period_elapsed() variant,
snd_pcm_period_elapsed_without_lock(), for drivers to queue the event in
the process context.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto &lt;o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210610031733.56297-2-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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Current implementation of ALSA PCM core has a kernel API,
snd_pcm_period_elapsed(), for drivers to queue event to awaken processes
from waiting for available frames. The function voluntarily acquires lock
of PCM substream, therefore it is not called in process context for any
PCM operation since the lock is already acquired.

It is convenient for packet-oriented driver, at least for drivers to audio
and music unit in IEEE 1394 bus. The drivers are allowed by Linux
FireWire subsystem to process isochronous packets queued till recent
isochronous cycle in process context in any time.

This commit adds snd_pcm_period_elapsed() variant,
snd_pcm_period_elapsed_without_lock(), for drivers to queue the event in
the process context.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto &lt;o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210610031733.56297-2-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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<title>ALSA: pcm: One more dependency for hw constraints</title>
<updated>2021-01-23T15:59:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-23T15:57:30+00:00</published>
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The fix for a long-standing USB-audio bug required one more dependency
variable to be added to the hw constraints.  Unfortunately I didn't
realize at debugging that the new addition may result in the overflow
of the dependency array of each snd_pcm_hw_rule (up to three plus a
sentinel), because USB-audio driver adds one more dependency only for
a certain device and bus, hence it works as is for many devices.  But
in a bad case, a simple open always results in -EINVAL (with kernel
WARNING if CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is set) no matter what is passed.

Since the dependencies are real and unavoidable (USB-audio restricts
the hw_params per looping over the format/rate/channels combos), the
only good solution seems to raise the bar for one more dependency for
snd_pcm_hw_rule -- so does this patch: now the hw constraint
dependencies can be up to four.

Fixes: 506c203cc3de ("ALSA: usb-audio: Fix hw constraints dependencies")
Reported-by: Jamie Heilman &lt;jamie@audible.transient.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210123155730.22576-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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The fix for a long-standing USB-audio bug required one more dependency
variable to be added to the hw constraints.  Unfortunately I didn't
realize at debugging that the new addition may result in the overflow
of the dependency array of each snd_pcm_hw_rule (up to three plus a
sentinel), because USB-audio driver adds one more dependency only for
a certain device and bus, hence it works as is for many devices.  But
in a bad case, a simple open always results in -EINVAL (with kernel
WARNING if CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is set) no matter what is passed.

Since the dependencies are real and unavoidable (USB-audio restricts
the hw_params per looping over the format/rate/channels combos), the
only good solution seems to raise the bar for one more dependency for
snd_pcm_hw_rule -- so does this patch: now the hw constraint
dependencies can be up to four.

Fixes: 506c203cc3de ("ALSA: usb-audio: Fix hw constraints dependencies")
Reported-by: Jamie Heilman &lt;jamie@audible.transient.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210123155730.22576-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
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