When receiving more rx packets than the kernel can handle the driver drops the packets and issues an error message. This is bad for two reasons. The logs are flooded with myriads of messages, but then time consumed for printing messages in that critical code path brings down the device. After some time of excessive rx load the driver responds with: rtw_8822cu 1-1:1.2: failed to get tx report from firmware rtw_8822cu 1-1:1.2: firmware failed to report density after scan rtw_8822cu 1-1:1.2: firmware failed to report density after scan The device stops working until being replugged. Fix this by lowering the priority to debug level and also by ratelimiting it. Fixes: a82dfd33d1237 ("wifi: rtw88: Add common USB chip support") Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c index 44a5fafb99055..976eafa739a2d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/usb.c @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static void rtw_usb_rx_handler(struct work_struct *work) } if (skb_queue_len(&rtwusb->rx_queue) >= RTW_USB_MAX_RXQ_LEN) { - rtw_err(rtwdev, "failed to get rx_queue, overflow\n"); + dev_dbg_ratelimited(rtwdev->dev, "failed to get rx_queue, overflow\n"); dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); continue; } -- 2.39.2