From: yangerkun <yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx> We make a mistake while backport 'commit 84855678add8 ("spi: Fix controller unregister order")'. What we should do is call __unreigster for each device before spi_destroy_queue. This problem exist in linux-4.4.y/linux-4.9.y. Signed-off-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c @@ -1917,13 +1917,13 @@ static int __unregister(struct device *d */ void spi_unregister_master(struct spi_master *master) { + device_for_each_child(&master->dev, NULL, __unregister); + if (master->queued) { if (spi_destroy_queue(master)) dev_err(&master->dev, "queue remove failed\n"); } - device_for_each_child(&master->dev, NULL, __unregister); - mutex_lock(&board_lock); list_del(&master->list); mutex_unlock(&board_lock);