This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: sun6i: disable/unprepare clocks on remove to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: spi-sun6i-disable-unprepare-clocks-on-remove.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon Mar 19 10:11:52 CET 2018 From: Tobias Jordan <Tobias.Jordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:04:53 +0100 Subject: spi: sun6i: disable/unprepare clocks on remove From: Tobias Jordan <Tobias.Jordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2d9bbd02c54094ceffa555143b0d68cd06504d63 ] sun6i_spi_probe() uses sun6i_spi_runtime_resume() to prepare/enable clocks, so sun6i_spi_remove() should use sun6i_spi_runtime_suspend() to disable/unprepare them if we're not suspended. Replacing pm_runtime_disable() by pm_runtime_force_suspend() will ensure that sun6i_spi_runtime_suspend() is called if needed. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Fixes: 3558fe900e8af (spi: sunxi: Add Allwinner A31 SPI controller driver) Signed-off-by: Tobias Jordan <Tobias.Jordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-sun6i.c @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ err_free_master: static int sun6i_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { - pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev); + pm_runtime_force_suspend(&pdev->dev); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Tobias.Jordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/spi-sun6i-disable-unprepare-clocks-on-remove.patch