diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c b/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
index 511446a30c057bc05b55c02fb824c8ff32c76e7a..60248a6820aacca07970e01a80b2b9f41b0a5a29 100644
--- a/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ static inline int _soc_pcm_ret(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd,
 	switch (ret) {
 	case -EPROBE_DEFER:
 	case -ENOTSUPP:
-	case -EINVAL:
 		break;
 	default:
 		dev_err(rtd->dev,
@@ -902,7 +901,13 @@ static int __soc_pcm_prepare(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd,
 	}
 
 out:
-	return soc_pcm_ret(rtd, ret);
+	/*
+	 * Don't use soc_pcm_ret() on .prepare callback to lower error log severity
+	 *
+	 * We don't want to log an error since we do not want to give userspace a way to do a
+	 * denial-of-service attack on the syslog / diskspace.
+	 */
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /* PCM prepare ops for non-DPCM streams */
@@ -914,6 +919,13 @@ static int soc_pcm_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 	snd_soc_dpcm_mutex_lock(rtd);
 	ret = __soc_pcm_prepare(rtd, substream);
 	snd_soc_dpcm_mutex_unlock(rtd);
+
+	/*
+	 * Don't use soc_pcm_ret() on .prepare callback to lower error log severity
+	 *
+	 * We don't want to log an error since we do not want to give userspace a way to do a
+	 * denial-of-service attack on the syslog / diskspace.
+	 */
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -2461,7 +2473,13 @@ int dpcm_be_dai_prepare(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *fe, int stream)
 		be->dpcm[stream].state = SND_SOC_DPCM_STATE_PREPARE;
 	}
 
-	return soc_pcm_ret(fe, ret);
+	/*
+	 * Don't use soc_pcm_ret() on .prepare callback to lower error log severity
+	 *
+	 * We don't want to log an error since we do not want to give userspace a way to do a
+	 * denial-of-service attack on the syslog / diskspace.
+	 */
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int dpcm_fe_dai_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
@@ -2501,7 +2519,13 @@ static int dpcm_fe_dai_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 	dpcm_set_fe_update_state(fe, stream, SND_SOC_DPCM_UPDATE_NO);
 	snd_soc_dpcm_mutex_unlock(fe);
 
-	return soc_pcm_ret(fe, ret);
+	/*
+	 * Don't use soc_pcm_ret() on .prepare callback to lower error log severity
+	 *
+	 * We don't want to log an error since we do not want to give userspace a way to do a
+	 * denial-of-service attack on the syslog / diskspace.
+	 */
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int dpcm_run_update_shutdown(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *fe, int stream)