Author: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> for_each_child_of_node performs an of_node_get on each iteration, so a break out of the loop requires an of_node_put. The of_node_put is duplicated in front of each error return, because the function contains a later error return that is beyond the end of the for_each_child_of_node and thus doesn’t need of_node_put. The semantic patch …