Laptop is spamming syslog message about my ethernet connection (via USB-C dock) and I lose my ethernet connection

I have a USB-C dock connected to my 4th gen ThinkPad X1 Yoga, and I have a 1080p display, ethernet, external SSD & peripherals connected to that dock.

This message keeps spamming my notifications:

Message from syslogd@Kuroneko-ThinkPadX1Yoga4th at Dec 10 19:39:40 ...
kernel:[115379.359432] unregister_netdevice: waiting for enx70886b8e5a2e to become free. Usage count = 12

This occasionally happens whenever I unplug my laptop from the dock, which prevents the laptop from sleeping. However, this is the first time it happens while the device is running and remained plugged in.

It’s also preventing the laptop from shutting down, so I always have to forcefully do it.

Any way to permanently fix that?

Here’s my system info:
Operating System: Kubuntu 21.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.13.0-22-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics