Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> for_each_node_by_name only exits when its first argument is NULL, and a subsequent call to of_node_put on that argument is unnecessary. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ iterator name for_each_node_by_name; expression np,E; identifier l; @@ for_each_node_by_name(np,…) { … when != break; when != goto l; …