FAILED: patch "[PATCH] spi: mxic: 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 adbc595e272052181d40ec307a4c5ba98571b0fe
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026051509-finite-arise-4dbd@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From adbc595e272052181d40ec307a4c5ba98571b0fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:43:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] spi: mxic: fix controller deregistration

Make sure to deregister the controller before disabling underlying
resources like clocks (via runtime pm) during driver unbind.

Fixes: b942d80b0a39 ("spi: Add MXIC controller driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 5.0: cc53711b2191
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 5.0
Cc: Mason Yang <masonccyang@mxic.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260414134319.978196-6-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-mxic.c b/drivers/spi/spi-mxic.c
index f9369c69911c..b0e7fc828a50 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-mxic.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-mxic.c
@@ -832,9 +832,10 @@ static void mxic_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct spi_controller *host = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 	struct mxic_spi *mxic = spi_controller_get_devdata(host);
 
+	spi_unregister_controller(host);
+
 	pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
 	mxic_spi_mem_ecc_remove(mxic);
-	spi_unregister_controller(host);
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id mxic_spi_of_ids[] = {