diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
index 94b5da468a7d..15cc0ae76c8e 100644
--- a/mm/cma.c
+++ b/mm/cma.c
@@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages,
 		 unsigned long count)
 {
 	struct cma_memrange *cmr;
+	unsigned long ret = 0;
 	unsigned long i, pfn;
 
 	cmr = find_cma_memrange(cma, pages, count);
@@ -1021,7 +1022,9 @@ bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages,
 
 	pfn = page_to_pfn(pages);
 	for (i = 0; i < count; i++, pfn++)
-		VM_WARN_ON(!put_page_testzero(pfn_to_page(pfn)));
+		ret += !put_page_testzero(pfn_to_page(pfn));
+
+	WARN(ret, "%lu pages are still in use!\n", ret);
 
 	__cma_release_frozen(cma, cmr, pages, count);