diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index acef14ad53db..c3638ac81cb6 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 /*
  *  inode.c - part of debugfs, a tiny little debug file system
  *
- *  Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
+ *  Copyright (C) 2004,2019 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
  *  Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Inc.
+ *  Copyright (C) 2019 Linux Foundation <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
  *
  *  debugfs is for people to use instead of /proc or /sys.
  *  See ./Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst for more details.
@@ -292,8 +293,10 @@ static struct dentry *start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
 
 	error = simple_pin_fs(&debug_fs_type, &debugfs_mount,
 			      &debugfs_mount_count);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
+		pr_err("Unable to pin filesystem for file '%s'\n", name);
 		return ERR_PTR(error);
+	}
 
 	/* If the parent is not specified, we create it in the root.
 	 * We need the root dentry to do this, which is in the super
@@ -307,6 +310,7 @@ static struct dentry *start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
 	dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
 	if (!IS_ERR(dentry) && d_really_is_positive(dentry)) {
 		dput(dentry);
+		pr_err("File '%s' already present!\n", name);
 		dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
 	}
 
@@ -349,8 +353,11 @@ static struct dentry *__debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 		return dentry;
 
 	inode = debugfs_get_inode(dentry->d_sb);
-	if (unlikely(!inode))
+	if (unlikely(!inode)) {
+		pr_err("out of free dentries, can not create file '%s'\n",
+		       name);
 		return failed_creating(dentry);
+	}
 
 	inode->i_mode = mode;
 	inode->i_private = data;
@@ -511,8 +518,11 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
 		return dentry;
 
 	inode = debugfs_get_inode(dentry->d_sb);
-	if (unlikely(!inode))
+	if (unlikely(!inode)) {
+		pr_err("out of free dentries, can not create directory '%s'\n",
+		       name);
 		return failed_creating(dentry);
+	}
 
 	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
 	inode->i_op = &simple_dir_inode_operations;
@@ -550,8 +560,11 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_automount(const char *name,
 		return dentry;
 
 	inode = debugfs_get_inode(dentry->d_sb);
-	if (unlikely(!inode))
+	if (unlikely(!inode)) {
+		pr_err("out of free dentries, can not create automount '%s'\n",
+		       name);
 		return failed_creating(dentry);
+	}
 
 	make_empty_dir_inode(inode);
 	inode->i_flags |= S_AUTOMOUNT;
@@ -606,6 +619,8 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_symlink(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
 
 	inode = debugfs_get_inode(dentry->d_sb);
 	if (unlikely(!inode)) {
+		pr_err("out of free dentries, can not create symlink '%s'\n",
+		       name);
 		kfree(link);
 		return failed_creating(dentry);
 	}