Comment 8 for bug 1881214

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Joël Bourgault (joel-bourgault) wrote : Re: syslog and kern.log grow endlessly - related to Intel wifi?

Hi all,

Same issue on my computer; `/var/log/syslog`, `/var/log/kern.log`, and `journalctl` entries (`/var/log/journal/<some-hexa>/` folder) have grown endlessly, until filling the partition, in less than an hour.

Xubuntu 20.04
Lenovo ThinkPad T470s

Following message is repeated again and again (around 330,000 times!) in `/var/log/syslog`, `/var/log/kern.log`, with similar entries in `journalctl` :

```
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799370] wlp58s0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x0
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799499] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 15093 at net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:17 drv_sta_s
tate+0x254/0x3f0 [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799501] Modules linked in: ccm aufs intel_rapl_msr overlay bnep joydev mei_h
dcp snd_hda_codec_hdmi binfmt_misc snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic intel_rapl_common x86_pkg_temp_thermal
intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel nls_iso8859_1 snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core kvm snd_hw
dep snd_pcm crct10dif_pclmul thinkpad_acpi ghash_clmulni_intel nvram ledtrig_audio iwlmvm mac80211 snd_seq_midi snd_se
q_midi_event libarc4 aesni_intel rmi_smbus rmi_core crypto_simd uvcvideo cryptd videobuf2_vmalloc glue_helper btusb bt
rtl videobuf2_memops intel_cstate btbcm snd_rawmidi videobuf2_v4l2 intel_rapl_perf videobuf2_common btintel iwlwifi bl
uetooth snd_seq i915 input_leds ecdh_generic videodev serio_raw ecc wmi_bmof ucsi_acpi snd_seq_device intel_wmi_thunde
rbolt snd_timer mc typec_ucsi cfg80211 snd mei_me typec drm_kms_helper mei intel_pch_thermal i2c_algo_bit fb_sys_fops
syscopyarea intel_xhci_usb_role_switch sysfillrect roles sysimgblt soundcore acpi_pad mac_hid
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799597] nf_log_ipv6 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 xt_hl ip6t_rt nf_log_ipv4 nf
_log_common ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_LOG xt_limit xt_addrtype xt_tcpudp xt_conntrack nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 n
f_defrag_ipv4 libcrc32c sch_fq_codel ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter parport_pc ppdev bpfilter lp parport dr
m ip_tables x_tables autofs4 uas usb_storage nvme crc32_pclmul psmouse e1000e i2c_i801 nvme_core wmi video
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799653] CPU: 1 PID: 15093 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G W 5.4
.0-33-generic #37-Ubuntu
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799657] Hardware name: LENOVO 20HGS36U00/20HGS36U00, BIOS N1WET48W (1.27 ) 0
5/28/2018
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799734] Workqueue: phy0 ieee80211_csa_connection_drop_work [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799809] RIP: 0010:drv_sta_state+0x254/0x3f0 [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799817] Code: 00 45 31 ed e9 66 fe ff ff 48 8b 83 78 04 00 00 48 8d b3 98 04
 00 00 48 c7 c7 c8 78 d4 c0 48 85 c0 48 0f 45 f0 e8 b7 b1 bd ed <0f> 0b 41 bd fb ff ff ff e9 3d fe ff ff 65 8b 05 58 9
d 34 3f 89 c0
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799820] RSP: 0000:ffffaef1c2fafc98 EFLAGS: 00010282
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799825] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8fac33fde8c0 RCX: 0000000000000006
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799829] RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: ffff8fac372978c0
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799833] RBP: ffffaef1c2fafcd0 R08: 00000000000006c5 R09: 0000000000000004
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799837] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8fac300607a0
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799840] R13: ffff8fac300607a0 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: ffff8fac30060d68
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799845] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8fac37280000(0000) knlGS:00000000
00000000
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799849] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799853] CR2: 00007fab273f3830 CR3: 000000026de98002 CR4: 00000000003606e0
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799856] Call Trace:
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.799928] sta_info_move_state+0x276/0x370 [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800006] __sta_info_destroy_part2+0x2f/0x180 [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800085] __sta_info_flush+0x128/0x180 [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800178] ieee80211_set_disassoc+0xc0/0x5f0 [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800190] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1e/0x20
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800277] __ieee80211_disconnect+0x86/0x120 [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800363] ieee80211_csa_connection_drop_work+0x15/0x20 [mac80211]
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800372] process_one_work+0x1eb/0x3b0
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800381] worker_thread+0x4d/0x400
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800391] kthread+0x104/0x140
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800398] ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800403] ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800421] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
May 30 22:10:29 joel-T470s kernel: [ 6519.800430] ---[ end trace d68309d810193a5f ]---
```