This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: dw: Disable clock after unregistering the host 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-dw-disable-clock-after-unregistering-the-host.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 Thu Mar 22 15:16:04 CET 2018 From: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:09:06 +0200 Subject: spi: dw: Disable clock after unregistering the host From: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 400c18e3dc86e04ef5afec9b86a8586ca629b9e9 ] The dw_mmio driver disables the block clock before unregistering the host. The code unregistering the host may access the SPI block registers. If register access happens with block clock disabled, this may lead to a bus hang. Disable the clock after unregistering the host to prevent such situation. This bug was observed on Altera Cyclone V SoC. Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> 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-dw-mmio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-mmio.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-mmio.c @@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ static int dw_spi_mmio_remove(struct pla { struct dw_spi_mmio *dwsmmio = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); - clk_disable_unprepare(dwsmmio->clk); dw_spi_remove_host(&dwsmmio->dws); + clk_disable_unprepare(dwsmmio->clk); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marex@xxxxxxx are queue-3.18/spi-dw-disable-clock-after-unregistering-the-host.patch