The warn is triggered on a known race condition that is correctly handled. Using WARN() hinders automated testing. Reducing severity. Fixes: de2070fc4aa7 ("ath6kl: Fix kernel panic on continuous driver load/unload") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+555908813b2ea35dae9a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c index c68848819a52..9b88d96bfe96 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_pipe.c @@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ static int ath6kl_htc_pipe_rx_complete(struct ath6kl *ar, struct sk_buff *skb, * Thus the possibility of ar->htc_target being NULL * via ath6kl_recv_complete -> ath6kl_usb_io_comp_work. */ - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!target)) { - ath6kl_err("Target not yet initialized\n"); + if (!target) { + ath6kl_dbg(ATH6KL_DBG_HTC, "Target not yet initialized\n"); status = -EINVAL; goto free_skb; } -- 2.34.1