This was fixed by David Lamparter in v2.6.36-rc5 
3486008 ("spi: free
children in spi_unregister_master, not siblings") and broken again in
v2.6.37-rc1~2^2~4 during the merge of 
2b9603a0 ("spi: enable
spi_board_info to be registered after spi_master").
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 
        list_del(&master->list);
        mutex_unlock(&board_lock);
 
-       dummy = device_for_each_child(master->dev.parent, &master->dev,
-                                       __unregister);
+       dummy = device_for_each_child(&master->dev, NULL, __unregister);
        device_unregister(&master->dev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spi_unregister_master);