Commit 62795041418d ("PCI: enhance physical slot debug information") added a debug print on releasing the PCI slot and another message on destroying it. There is however no debug print on releasing the PCI device structure itself and even with closely looking at the kernel log during hotplug testing, I overlooked several missing pci_dev_put() calls for way too long. So let's add a debug print in pci_release_dev() making it much easier to spot when the PCI device structure is not released when it is supposed to. Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pci/probe.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c index 953f15abc850..3e3669a00a2f 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c @@ -2226,6 +2226,7 @@ static void pci_release_dev(struct device *dev) pci_bus_put(pci_dev->bus); kfree(pci_dev->driver_override); bitmap_free(pci_dev->dma_alias_mask); + dev_dbg(dev, "device released\n"); kfree(pci_dev); } -- 2.25.1