diff --git a/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h b/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
index a0b827f0c2f6..25e049f44178 100644
--- a/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
+++ b/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ void asoc_simple_convert_fixup(struct asoc_simple_data *data,
 				      struct snd_pcm_hw_params *params);
 void asoc_simple_parse_convert(struct device_node *np, char *prefix,
 			       struct asoc_simple_data *data);
+bool asoc_simple_is_convert_required(const struct asoc_simple_data *data);
 
 int asoc_simple_parse_routing(struct snd_soc_card *card,
 				      char *prefix);
diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/audio-graph-card.c b/sound/soc/generic/audio-graph-card.c
index b327372f2e4a..fe7cf972d44c 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/audio-graph-card.c
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/audio-graph-card.c
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ static inline bool parse_as_dpcm_link(struct asoc_simple_priv *priv,
 	 * or has convert-xxx property
 	 */
 	if ((of_get_child_count(codec_port) > 1) ||
-	    (adata->convert_rate || adata->convert_channels))
+	    asoc_simple_is_convert_required(adata))
 		return true;
 
 	return false;
diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
index bef16833c487..be69bbc47f81 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
@@ -85,6 +85,21 @@ void asoc_simple_parse_convert(struct device_node *np,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asoc_simple_parse_convert);
 
+/**
+ * asoc_simple_is_convert_required() - Query if HW param conversion was requested
+ * @data: Link data.
+ *
+ * Returns true if any HW param conversion was requested for this DAI link with
+ * any "convert-xxx" properties.
+ */
+bool asoc_simple_is_convert_required(const struct asoc_simple_data *data)
+{
+	return data->convert_rate ||
+	       data->convert_channels ||
+	       data->convert_sample_format;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asoc_simple_is_convert_required);
+
 int asoc_simple_parse_daifmt(struct device *dev,
 			     struct device_node *node,
 			     struct device_node *codec,
diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
index 78419e18717d..feb55b66239b 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
@@ -393,8 +393,7 @@ static int __simple_for_each_link(struct asoc_simple_priv *priv,
 			 * or has convert-xxx property
 			 */
 			if (dpcm_selectable &&
-			    (num > 2 ||
-			     adata.convert_rate || adata.convert_channels)) {
+			    (num > 2 || asoc_simple_is_convert_required(&adata))) {
 				/*
 				 * np
 				 *	 |1(CPU)|0(Codec)  li->cpu