[PATCH 16/26] spi: sprd: fix controller deregistration

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Fri Apr 10 2026 - 04:27:43 EST


Make sure to deregister the controller before disabling underlying
resources like clocks during driver unbind.

Note that the controller is suspended before disabling and releasing
resources since commit de082d866cce ("spi: sprd: Add the SPI irq
function for the SPI DMA mode") which avoids issues like unclocked
accesses but prevents SPI device drivers from doing I/O during
deregistration.

Fixes: e7d973a31c24 ("spi: sprd: Add SPI driver for Spreadtrum SC9860")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.20
Cc: Lanqing Liu <lanqing.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-sprd.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-sprd.c b/drivers/spi/spi-sprd.c
index 0f9fc320363c..fd3fd0ce122c 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-sprd.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-sprd.c
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@ static int sprd_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto err_rpm_put;
}

- ret = devm_spi_register_controller(&pdev->dev, sctlr);
+ ret = spi_register_controller(sctlr);
if (ret)
goto err_rpm_put;

@@ -1008,7 +1008,9 @@ static void sprd_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (ret < 0)
dev_err(ss->dev, "failed to resume SPI controller\n");

- spi_controller_suspend(sctlr);
+ spi_controller_get(sctlr);
+
+ spi_unregister_controller(sctlr);

if (ret >= 0) {
if (ss->dma.enable)
@@ -1017,6 +1019,8 @@ static void sprd_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
}
pm_runtime_put_noidle(&pdev->dev);
pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
+
+ spi_controller_put(sctlr);
}

static int __maybe_unused sprd_spi_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev)
--
2.52.0