diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h
index 8dad1fdf..ea6ec65 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ struct iommu_table;
 struct pci_dn {
 	int     flags;
 #define PCI_DN_FLAG_IOV_VF	0x01
+#define PCI_DN_FLAG_DEAD	0x02    /* Device has been hot-removed */
 
 	int	busno;			/* pci bus number */
 	int	devfn;			/* pci device and function number */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-hotplug.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-hotplug.c
index 0b0cf81..fc62c4b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-hotplug.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-hotplug.c
@@ -55,11 +55,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_find_bus_by_node);
 void pcibios_release_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
 {
 	struct pci_controller *phb = pci_bus_to_host(dev->bus);
+	struct pci_dn *pdn = pci_get_pdn(dev);
 
 	eeh_remove_device(dev);
 
 	if (phb->controller_ops.release_device)
 		phb->controller_ops.release_device(dev);
+
+	/* free()ing the pci_dn has been deferred to us, do it now */
+	if (pdn && (pdn->flags & PCI_DN_FLAG_DEAD)) {
+		pci_dbg(dev, "freeing dead pdn\n");
+		kfree(pdn);
+	}
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_dn.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_dn.c
index c4c8c23..9524009 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_dn.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_dn.c
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ void pci_remove_device_node_info(struct device_node *dn)
 {
 	struct pci_dn *pdn = dn ? PCI_DN(dn) : NULL;
 	struct device_node *parent;
+	struct pci_dev *pdev;
 #ifdef CONFIG_EEH
 	struct eeh_dev *edev = pdn_to_eeh_dev(pdn);
 
@@ -336,12 +337,28 @@ void pci_remove_device_node_info(struct device_node *dn)
 	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&pdn->child_list));
 	list_del(&pdn->list);
 
+	/* Drop the parent pci_dn's ref to our backing dt node */
 	parent = of_get_parent(dn);
 	if (parent)
 		of_node_put(parent);
 
-	dn->data = NULL;
-	kfree(pdn);
+	/*
+	 * At this point we *might* still have a pci_dev that was
+	 * instantiated from this pci_dn. So defer free()ing it until
+	 * the pci_dev's release function is called.
+	 */
+	pdev = pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot(pdn->phb->global_number,
+			pdn->busno, pdn->devfn);
+	if (pdev) {
+		/* NB: pdev has a ref to dn */
+		pci_dbg(pdev, "marked pdn (from %pOF) as dead\n", dn);
+		pdn->flags |= PCI_DN_FLAG_DEAD;
+	} else {
+		dn->data = NULL;
+		kfree(pdn);
+	}
+
+	pci_dev_put(pdev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_remove_device_node_info);