diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
index 189eadd..c5d32da 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
@@ -206,6 +206,23 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asoc_simple_card_canonicalize_dailink);
 
+void asoc_simple_card_canonicalize_cpu(struct snd_soc_dai_link *dai_link,
+				       int is_single_links)
+{
+	/*
+	 * In soc_bind_dai_link() will check cpu name after
+	 * of_node matching if dai_link has cpu_dai_name.
+	 * but, it will never match if name was created by
+	 * fmt_single_name() remove cpu_dai_name if cpu_args
+	 * was 0. See:
+	 *	fmt_single_name()
+	 *	fmt_multiple_name()
+	 */
+	if (is_single_links)
+		dai_link->cpu_dai_name = NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asoc_simple_card_canonicalize_cpu);
+
 /* Module information */
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ALSA SoC Simple Card Utils");