FAILED: patch "[PATCH] spi: sun6i: fix controller deregistration" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x d874a1c33aee0d88fb4ba2f8aeadaa9f1965209a
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026051227-slate-moving-766e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From d874a1c33aee0d88fb4ba2f8aeadaa9f1965209a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:17:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] spi: sun6i: fix controller deregistration

Make sure to deregister the controller before disabling underlying
resources like clocks during driver unbind.

Fixes: 3558fe900e8a ("spi: sunxi: Add Allwinner A31 SPI controller driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 3.15
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410081757.503099-20-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c b/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c
index 240e46f84f7b..5ac73d324d06 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ static int sun6i_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	pm_runtime_set_active(&pdev->dev);
 	pm_runtime_enable(&pdev->dev);
 
-	ret = devm_spi_register_controller(&pdev->dev, host);
+	ret = spi_register_controller(host);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot register SPI host\n");
 		goto err_pm_disable;
@@ -768,12 +768,18 @@ static void sun6i_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct spi_controller *host = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
+	spi_controller_get(host);
+
+	spi_unregister_controller(host);
+
 	pm_runtime_force_suspend(&pdev->dev);
 
 	if (host->dma_tx)
 		dma_release_channel(host->dma_tx);
 	if (host->dma_rx)
 		dma_release_channel(host->dma_rx);
+
+	spi_controller_put(host);
 }
 
 static const struct sun6i_spi_cfg sun6i_a31_spi_cfg = {