The BCM2835 SPI driver uses devm_spi_register_controller() on bind. As a consequence, on unbind, __device_release_driver() first invokes bcm2835_spi_remove() before unregistering the SPI controller via devres_release_all(). This order is incorrect: bcm2835_spi_remove() tears down the DMA channels and turns off the SPI controller, including its interrupts and clock. The SPI controller is thus no longer usable. When the SPI controller is subsequently unregistered, it unbinds all its slave devices. If their drivers need to access the SPI bus, e.g. to quiesce their interrupts, unbinding will fail. As a rule, devm_spi_register_controller() must not be used if the ->remove() hook performs teardown steps which shall be performed after unbinding of slaves. Fix by using the non-devm variant spi_register_controller(). Note that the struct spi_controller as well as the driver-private data are not freed until after bcm2835_spi_remove() has finished, so accessing them is safe. Fixes: 247263dba208 ("spi: bcm2835: use devm_spi_register_master()") Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.13+ --- drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c index cad3458e23ed..06d2782d38ec 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c @@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ static int bcm2835_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) goto out_dma_release; } - err = devm_spi_register_controller(&pdev->dev, ctlr); + err = spi_register_controller(ctlr); if (err) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not register SPI controller: %d\n", err); @@ -1378,6 +1378,8 @@ static int bcm2835_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) bcm2835_debugfs_remove(bs); + spi_unregister_controller(ctlr); + /* Clear FIFOs, and disable the HW block */ bcm2835_wr(bs, BCM2835_SPI_CS, BCM2835_SPI_CS_CLEAR_RX | BCM2835_SPI_CS_CLEAR_TX); -- 2.26.2