Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] spi: dw: Fix controller unregister order" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:20:14PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
>
>The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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>.
>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>
>------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>
>From ca8b19d61e3fce5d2d7790cde27a0b57bcb3f341 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
>Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 14:25:01 +0200
>Subject: [PATCH] spi: dw: Fix controller unregister order
>
>The Designware SPI driver uses devm_spi_register_controller() on bind.
>As a consequence, on unbind, __device_release_driver() first invokes
>dw_spi_remove_host() before unregistering the SPI controller via
>devres_release_all().
>
>This order is incorrect:  dw_spi_remove_host() shuts down the chip,
>rendering the SPI bus inaccessible even though the SPI controller is
>still registered.  When the SPI controller is subsequently unregistered,
>it unbinds all its slave devices.  Because their drivers cannot access
>the SPI bus, e.g. to quiesce interrupts, the slave devices may be left
>in an improper state.
>
>As a rule, devm_spi_register_controller() must not be used if the
>->remove() hook performs teardown steps which shall be performed after
>unregistering the controller and specifically after unbinding of slaves.
>
>Fix by reverting to the non-devm variant of spi_register_controller().
>
>An alternative approach would be to use device-managed functions for all
>steps in dw_spi_remove_host(), e.g. by calling devm_add_action_or_reset()
>on probe.  However that approach would add more LoC to the driver and
>it wouldn't lend itself as well to backporting to stable.
>
>Fixes: 04f421e7b0b1 ("spi: dw: use managed resources")
>Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
>Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
>Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+
>Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
>Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3fff8cb8ae44a9893840d0688be15bb88c090a14.1590408496.git.lukas@wunner.de
>Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

I took this additional patch:

66b19d762378 ("spi: dw: fix possible race condition")

And worked around the renames in :

721483e28889 ("spi: dw: Convert to generalized SPI controller API")

And queued these two patches for 4.14, 4.9, and 4.4.

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Thanks,
Sasha