Kernel panic occurs during boot time with general protection fault after upgrading to 3.10.0-514.el7

Issue

• Kernel panicked due to general protection fault at rb_next() while accessing the sysfs directory.

• The following Kernel panic occurs.

[   34.106214] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[   34.106241] Modules linked in: nfsv3 nfs fscache vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock iptable_filter ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle intel_powerclamp coretemp iosf_mbi crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd ppdev vmw_balloon pcspkr sg vmw_vmci shpchp i2c_piix4 parport_pc parport nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc binfmt_misc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom ata_generic pata_acpi sd_mod crc_t10dif vmwgfx crct10dif_generic drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm drm ata_piix crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32c_intel serio_raw vmxnet3 libata vmw_pvscsi i2c_core floppy fjes dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[   34.106629] 
[   34.106634] CPU: 1 PID: 4331 Comm: find Not tainted 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 #1
[   34.106657] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 10/22/2013
[   34.106690] task: ffff8800b5910fb0 ti: ffff8801a7b20000 task.ti: ffff8801a7b20000
[   34.106714] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8131e7f3>]  [<ffffffff8131e7f3>] rb_next+0x23/0x50
[   34.106744] RSP: 0018:ffff8801a7b23e80  EFLAGS: 00010286
[   34.106762] RAX: ff0074616d726f66 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff8801bfbb44d0
[   34.106786] RDX: ff0074616d726f66 RSI: ffff8801bfbb43f0 RDI: ffff8801bfbb44e8
[   34.106808] RBP: ffff8801a7b23e80 R08: 0000000000004a0b R09: 000000000000000a
[   34.106831] R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff8801a834e300
[   34.106854] R13: 0000000077f1c5f8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8801bfbb44d0
[   34.106885] FS:  00007fddc9d7a800(0000) GS:ffff8801b8e40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   34.106921] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   34.106940] CR2: 00007fedacd37100 CR3: 00000001a720f000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
[   34.107003] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   34.107041] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   34.107064] Stack:
[   34.107072]  ffff8801a7b23ee8 ffffffff8127c75f ffffffff81212330 ffff8801a7b23f38
[   34.107101]  ffff8801bfbb43f0 000000000000000d 0000000a00000000 0000000000004a0b
[   34.107129]  ffff8801a834e300 ffff8801b30a1970 ffff8801a7b23f38 ffffffff81212330
[   34.107157] Call Trace:
[   34.107171]  [<ffffffff8127c75f>] sysfs_readdir+0x15f/0x280
[   34.107200]  [<ffffffff81212330>] ? fillonedir+0xe0/0xe0
[   34.107228]  [<ffffffff81212330>] ? fillonedir+0xe0/0xe0
[   34.107247]  [<ffffffff81212220>] vfs_readdir+0xb0/0xe0
[   34.107265]  [<ffffffff81212645>] SyS_getdents+0x95/0x120
[   34.107288]  [<ffffffff816964c9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   34.107308] Code: c0 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 8b 17 48 89 e5 48 39 d7 74 3b 48 8b 47 08 48 85 c0 75 0e eb 25 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 89 d0 <48> 8b 50 10 48 85 d2 75 f4 5d c3 66 90 48 3b 78 08 75 f6 48 8b 
[   34.109016] RIP  [<ffffffff8131e7f3>] rb_next+0x23/0x50
[   34.109815]  RSP <ffff8801a7b23e80>
[   34.110625] ---[ end trace acf0eaf24e20f71e ]---
[   34.111442] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception