FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: ene_ir: Ensure teardown is done in the correct order" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-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-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x ae6cfbad7ca346b78f4cdac38438bbfaed8c18a0
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261107051729-failed-6.12-ae6cfbad7ca3@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Thanks,
Sasha

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

From ae6cfbad7ca346b78f4cdac38438bbfaed8c18a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 11:29:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] media: ene_ir: Ensure teardown is done in the correct order

The timer can be re-armed from the irq, so ensure that the timers are
deleted after the irq and that we only free the rc device once we are
sure that the irq has been silenced.

Fixes: dccc0c3ddf8f ("media: rc: fix race between unregister and urb/irq callbacks")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.c b/drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.c
index 6f7dccc965e7f..f98d76277b62a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/ene_ir.c
@@ -1103,15 +1103,15 @@ static void ene_remove(struct pnp_dev *pnp_dev)
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	rc_unregister_device(dev->rdev);
-	timer_delete_sync(&dev->tx_sim_timer);
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->hw_lock, flags);
 	ene_rx_disable(dev);
 	ene_rx_restore_hw_buffer(dev);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->hw_lock, flags);
 
-	rc_free_device(dev->rdev);
 	free_irq(dev->irq, dev);
+	timer_delete_sync(&dev->tx_sim_timer);
 	release_region(dev->hw_io, ENE_IO_SIZE);
+	rc_free_device(dev->rdev);
 	kfree(dev);
 }
 
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