Bug 2432396 (CVE-2026-22994) - CVE-2026-22994 kernel: bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()
Summary: CVE-2026-22994 kernel: bpf: Fix reference count leak in bpf_prog_test_run_xdp()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-22994
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-01-23 16:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-23 20:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-23 16:03:13 UTC
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().


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