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

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

[gregkh]

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 77953c76bec9af4191f8692a10225dd816208718
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026051554-playing-earmuff-72d0@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 77953c76bec9af4191f8692a10225dd816208718 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 14:04:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] spi: meson-spicc: fix controller deregistration

Make sure to deregister the controller before disabling it to allow SPI
device drivers to do I/O during deregistration.

Fixes: 454fa271bc4e ("spi: Add Meson SPICC driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 4.13
Cc: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409120419.388546-18-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-meson-spicc.c b/drivers/spi/spi-meson-spicc.c
index 57768da3205d..b80f9f457b66 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-meson-spicc.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-meson-spicc.c
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ static int meson_spicc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		}
 	}
 
-	ret = devm_spi_register_controller(&pdev->dev, host);
+	ret = spi_register_controller(host);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "spi registration failed\n");
 		goto out_host;
@@ -1099,8 +1099,14 @@ static void meson_spicc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct meson_spicc_device *spicc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
+	spi_controller_get(spicc->host);
+
+	spi_unregister_controller(spicc->host);
+
 	/* Disable SPI */
 	writel(0, spicc->base + SPICC_CONREG);
+
+	spi_controller_put(spicc->host);
 }
 
 static const struct meson_spicc_data meson_spicc_gx_data = {