diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/sst/sst_drv_interface.c b/sound/soc/intel/sst/sst_drv_interface.c
index aadb0dbaa01c..3a5e92096b82 100644
--- a/sound/soc/intel/sst/sst_drv_interface.c
+++ b/sound/soc/intel/sst/sst_drv_interface.c
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ int free_stream_context(struct intel_sst_drv *ctx, unsigned int str_id)
 		if (ret)
 			sst_clean_stream(&ctx->streams[str_id]);
 		return ret;
+	} else {
+		dev_err(ctx->dev, "we tried to free stream context %d which was freed!!!\n", str_id);
 	}
 	return ret;
 }