System crashed with error - 'BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address'

Issue

• After issues in the connectivity to VMware Virtual Disks, the system crashed and rebooted with following error messages in the logs:

  mptbase: ioc0: Initiating recovery
  mptscsih: ioc0: Issue of TaskMgmt failed!
  mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED (sc=c9a8e200)
  mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=f56fdb00)
   :
  mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: SUCCESS (sc=c9a8e200)
   target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation
   target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests
   target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation
   target0:0:0: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25 ns, offset 127)
   :
  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000400a