kernel panic in vmci_transport_handle_detach() due to NULL pointer dereference at (null)

Issue

• RHEL-7 guest hosted on VMware ESXi crashed during migration (vMotion) on another VMware ESXi host.

[255514.595156] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[255514.595166] IP:
[255514.595169]   [<(null)>]           (null)
[255514.595172] PGD 0 
[255514.595172] 
[255514.595173] Oops: 0010 [#1] 
[255514.595174] SMP 
[255514.595174] 
[255514.596565] Modules linked in:
[255514.612028]  fuse btrfs zlib_deflate raid6_pq xor vfat msdos fat ext4 mbcache jbd2 vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock coretemp crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd ppdev vmw_balloon pcspkr sg vmw_vmci i2c_piix4 parport_pc parport shpchp binfmt_misc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic ata_generic pata_acpi crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common vmwgfx crc32c_intel drm_kms_helper ttm serio_raw drm vmxnet3 vmw_pvscsi i2c_core ata_piix libata floppy dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[255514.622140] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1
[255514.622165] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 09/21/2015
[255514.635937] task: ffff880138f34500 ti: ffff880138f74000 task.ti: ffff880138f74000
[255514.635969] RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>]  [<(null)>]           (null)
[255514.635994] RSP: 0018:ffff88013ae23df0  EFLAGS: 00010293
[255514.636010] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffa0350190 RCX: 0000000000000000
[255514.636031] RDX: ffffffffa03505cf RSI: ffffffffa03505c0 RDI: ffffffffa0350190
[255514.650087] RBP: ffff88013ae23e00 R08: 0000e8401a9c4580 R09: 0000000000001000
[255514.660637] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000005 R12: ffffffffa0356f50
[255514.661046] R13: ffffc90009157040 R14: 0000000000000fd8 R15: 0000000000000020
[255514.661087] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013ae20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[255514.661500] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[255514.661913] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000b96a5000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[255514.662001] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[255514.662579] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[255514.662601] Stack:
[255514.662612]  ffffffffa0356f95 ffffffffa03504d0 ffff88013ae23e20 ffffffffa034c28a
[255514.662642]  ffff8801374f3340 ffffffffa02e4900 ffff88013ae23e30 ffffffffa0356845
[255514.662665]  ffff88013ae23e68 ffffffffa02dac74 ffff8801374f3358 52e4b6f87726d66b
[255514.662689] Call Trace:
[255514.662697]  <IRQ> 
[255514.662711] 
[255514.686734]  [<ffffffffa0356f95>] ? vmci_transport_handle_detach+0x45/0x90 [vmw_vsock_vmci_transport]
[255514.686786]  [<ffffffffa034c28a>] vsock_for_each_connected_socket+0x5a/0x80 [vsock]
[255514.686814]  [<ffffffffa0356845>] vmci_transport_qp_resumed_cb+0x15/0x20 [vmw_vsock_vmci_transport]
[255514.686844]  [<ffffffffa02dac74>] vmci_event_dispatch+0x74/0xc0 [vmw_vmci]
[255514.686867]  [<ffffffffa02daf94>] vmci_dispatch_dgs+0x1f4/0x230 [vmw_vmci]
[255514.686890]  [<ffffffff8108493d>] tasklet_action+0x7d/0x140
[255514.686907]  [<ffffffff81084aef>] __do_softirq+0xef/0x280
[255514.686925]  [<ffffffff81647a9c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[255514.686943]  [<ffffffff81016fc5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
[255514.686959]  [<ffffffff81084e85>] irq_exit+0x115/0x120
[255514.686976]  [<ffffffff81648715>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x45/0x60
[255514.686996]  [<ffffffff81646ddd>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
[255514.687014]  <EOI> 
[255514.687023] 
[255514.688375]  [<ffffffff8163c1d0>] ? schedule_user+0xc0/0xc0
[255514.689192]  [<ffffffff810d6344>] ? cpu_startup_entry+0x184/0x290
[255514.689897]  [<ffffffff810475fa>] start_secondary+0x1ba/0x230
[255514.690666] Code:  Bad RIP value.
[255514.691361] RIP   [<(null)>]           (null)
[255514.692051]  RSP <ffff88013ae23df0>
[255514.692718] CR2: 0000000000000000