diff --git a/pkg/client/client.go b/pkg/client/client.go
index 153cf16e0e..9fea9c2fc7 100644
--- a/pkg/client/client.go
+++ b/pkg/client/client.go
@@ -106,22 +106,20 @@ func (l Logger) Printf(format string, args ...interface{}) {
 
 	// extra check in case, when verbosity has been changed dynamically
 	if debugger {
+		// Walk the stack and find the deepest gophercloud frame (matches both
+		// gophercloud/gophercloud and gophercloud/utils, where the
+		// RoundTripper lives). The frame above it is the actual caller that
+		// triggered the API request, which is what we want klog to report.
+		const gc = "/github.com/gophercloud/"
 		var skip int
-		var found bool
-		var gc = "/github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud"
-
-		// detect the depth of the actual function, which calls gophercloud code
-		// 10 is the common depth from the logger to "github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/v2"
-		for i := 10; i <= 20; i++ {
-			if _, file, _, ok := runtime.Caller(i); ok && !found && strings.Contains(file, gc) {
-				found = true
-				continue
-			} else if ok && found && !strings.Contains(file, gc) {
-				skip = i
-				break
-			} else if !ok {
+		for i := 1; ; i++ {
+			_, file, _, ok := runtime.Caller(i)
+			if !ok {
 				break
 			}
+			if strings.Contains(file, gc) {
+				skip = i + 1
+			}
 		}
 
 		for _, v := range strings.Split(fmt.Sprintf(format, args...), "\n") {
diff --git a/pkg/client/client_test.go b/pkg/client/client_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ef58eadcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/client/client_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package client
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"flag"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/v2"
+	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/v2/openstack"
+	"github.com/gophercloud/utils/v2/client"
+	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
+)
+
+// TestLoggerReportsCallerLine verifies that debug log lines emitted through
+// the Logger wrapper are attributed to the caller that initiated the
+// gophercloud request, not to the wrapper file itself (issue #2300).
+func TestLoggerReportsCallerLine(t *testing.T) {
+	state := klog.CaptureState()
+	defer state.Restore()
+
+	var fs flag.FlagSet
+	klog.InitFlags(&fs)
+	if err := fs.Set("v", "6"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to set verbosity: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := fs.Set("logtostderr", "false"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to set logtostderr: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := fs.Set("skip_headers", "false"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to set skip_headers: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	klog.SetOutput(&buf)
+
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{}`))
+	}))
+	defer srv.Close()
+
+	provider, err := openstack.NewClient(srv.URL)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to build provider: %v", err)
+	}
+	provider.HTTPClient = http.Client{
+		Transport: &client.RoundTripper{
+			Rt:     http.DefaultTransport,
+			Logger: &Logger{},
+		},
+	}
+
+	if _, err := provider.Request(context.Background(), http.MethodGet, srv.URL, &gophercloud.RequestOpts{
+		KeepResponseBody: true,
+		OkCodes:          []int{http.StatusOK},
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("request failed: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	klog.Flush()
+
+	output := buf.String()
+	if output == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("expected klog output, got none")
+	}
+	// The wrapper's own file must not appear as the source location, since
+	// that would mean every debug line is mis-attributed to client.go (the
+	// behavior reported in issue #2300).
+	if strings.Contains(output, "client.go:") && !strings.Contains(output, "client_test.go:") {
+		t.Fatalf("debug output is attributed to the wrapper, expected the caller; got:\n%s", output)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(output, "client_test.go:") {
+		t.Fatalf("expected debug output to reference the test caller (client_test.go); got:\n%s", output)
+	}
+}