diff --git a/kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c b/kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c
index 719d73299397..d706c4b7f532 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c
@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ static struct bpf_map *ringbuf_map_alloc(union bpf_attr *attr)
 
 static void bpf_ringbuf_free(struct bpf_ringbuf *rb)
 {
+	irq_work_sync(&rb->work);
+
 	/* copy pages pointer and nr_pages to local variable, as we are going
 	 * to unmap rb itself with vunmap() below
 	 */