FAILED: patch "[PATCH] spi: aspeed-smc: fix controller deregistration" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-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-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 1044e5a4ccd57bf5a64f90100a321b498e0267a2
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026051505-confess-amiable-7886@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 1044e5a4ccd57bf5a64f90100a321b498e0267a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 14:04:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] spi: aspeed-smc: fix controller deregistration
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Make sure to deregister the controller before disabling it to allow
SPI device drivers to do I/O during deregistration.

Fixes: e3228ed92893 ("spi: spi-mem: Convert Aspeed SMC driver to spi-mem")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 5.19
Cc: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409120419.388546-3-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c b/drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c
index 9c286e534bf0..c21323e07d3c 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-aspeed-smc.c
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ static int aspeed_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	aspi = spi_controller_get_devdata(ctlr);
-	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, aspi);
+	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ctlr);
 	aspi->data = data;
 	aspi->dev = dev;
 
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ static int aspeed_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	ret = devm_spi_register_controller(dev, ctlr);
+	ret = spi_register_controller(ctlr);
 	if (ret)
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "spi_register_controller failed\n");
 
@@ -1030,7 +1030,10 @@ static int aspeed_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 static void aspeed_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
-	struct aspeed_spi *aspi = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+	struct spi_controller *ctlr = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+	struct aspeed_spi *aspi = spi_controller_get_devdata(ctlr);
+
+	spi_unregister_controller(ctlr);
 
 	aspeed_spi_enable(aspi, false);
 }