Upstream information

CVE-2026-22994 at MITRE

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()

syzbot is reporting

unregister_netdevice: waiting for sit0 to become free. Usage count = 2

problem. A debug printk() patch found that a refcount is obtained at
xdp_convert_md_to_buff() from bpf_prog_test_run_xdp().

According to commit ec94670fcb3b ("bpf: Support specifying ingress via
xdp_md context in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN"), the refcount obtained by
xdp_convert_md_to_buff() will be released by xdp_convert_buff_to_md().

Therefore, we can consider that the error handling path introduced by
commit 1c1949982524 ("bpf: introduce frags support to
bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()") forgot to call xdp_convert_buff_to_md().

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1257213 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Jan 26 13:06:38 2026
CVE page last modified: Mon Jan 26 13:06:38 2026