^^^ Please fix the subject line to be "backlight: <driver>: ...". I came very close to deleting this patch without reading it ;-) . On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 01:13:02AM +0530, Shresth Prasad wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c > index eb18c6eb0ff0..3c5d8125080c 100644 > --- a/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c > +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/sky81452-backlight.c > @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static const struct attribute_group sky81452_bl_attr_group = { > static struct sky81452_bl_platform_data *sky81452_bl_parse_dt( > struct device *dev) > { > - struct device_node *np = of_node_get(dev->of_node); > + struct device_node *np __free(device_node) = of_node_get(dev->of_node); Do we need to get dev->of_node at all? The device, which we are borrowing, already owns a reference to the node so I don't see any point in this function taking an extra one. So why not simply make this: struct device_node *np = dev->of_node; Daniel.