diff --git a/src/emqx_channel.erl b/src/emqx_channel.erl
index e3cbff692..7bfef472d 100644
--- a/src/emqx_channel.erl
+++ b/src/emqx_channel.erl
@@ -977,8 +977,11 @@ handle_info({sock_closed, Reason}, Channel =
         Shutdown -> Shutdown
     end;
 
-handle_info({sock_closed, Reason}, Channel = #channel{conn_state = disconnected}) ->
-    ?LOG(error, "Unexpected sock_closed: ~p", [Reason]),
+handle_info({sock_closed, _Reason}, Channel = #channel{conn_state = disconnected}) ->
+    %% Since sock_closed messages can be generated multiple times,
+    %% we can simply ignore errors of this type in the disconnected state.
+    %% e.g. when the socket send function returns an error, there is already
+    %% a tcp_closed delivered to the process mailbox
     {ok, Channel};
 
 handle_info(clean_acl_cache, Channel) ->