Here are the results that are eliminated by my change: drivers/clk/axs10x/pll_clock.c:323:1-6 kfree(pll_clk); drivers/clk/clk-gpio.c:131:2-7 kfree(clk_gpio); drivers/clk/clk-hsdk-pll.c:410:1-6 kfree(pll_clk); drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk.c:97:1-6 kfree(clk_data); drivers/mfd/syscon.c:130:1-8 iounmap(base); drivers/mfd/syscon.c:132:1-6 kfree(syscon); drivers/pinctrl/freescale/pinctrl-mxs.c:139:2-7 kfree(group); drivers/pinctrl/samsung/pinctrl-exynos5440.c:264:1-6 kfree(gname); drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_debugfs.c:248:1-6 kfree(msg); drivers/pwm/pwm-lp3943.c:56:3-8 kfree(pwm_map); The semantic patch is pretty naive in that it assumes that all uses of the same name point to the same thing. Looking through the code, it looks like sometimes both an __init and a probe function are provided, and the __init function doesn't have access to a device object. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html