RHEL 7 crash using i40e driver with error: kernel BUG at drivers/pci/msi.c:355!

Issue

• A RHEL 7 system crashes with a backtrace much like the following:

  [ 2369.908075] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  [ 2369.908077] kernel BUG at drivers/pci/msi.c:355!
  [ 2369.908081] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP 
  [ 2369.908148] Modules linked in: fuse xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 tun bridge stp llc ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter devlink rpcrdma ib_isert iscsi_target_mod ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_srpt target_core_mod vfat fat skx_edac intel_powerclamp coretemp intel_rapl ib_srp iosf_mbi scsi_transport_srp kvm_intel scsi_tgt iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support kvm ib_ipoib irqbypass crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul rdma_ucm glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd ib_ucm ipmi_ssif ib_uverbs ib_umad rdma_cm ib_cm joydev pcspkr cdc_ether usbnet mii sg iw_cm mei_me lpc_ich i2c_i801 mei shpchp wmi
  [ 2369.908185]  i40iw ib_core ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler nfit libnvdimm acpi_power_meter acpi_pad nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc binfmt_misc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic mgag200 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common ttm crc32c_intel drm megaraid_sas i40e ahci libahci libata be2net ptp pps_core i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
  [ 2369.908190] CPU: 3 PID: 7683 Comm: kworker               ------------ T 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64 #1
  [ 2369.908192] Hardware name:
  [ 2369.908202] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
  [ 2369.908204] task: ffff9f27ab370000 ti: ffff9f27fee1c000 task.ti: ffff9f27fee1c000
  [ 2369.908212] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8e9b1b18>]  [<ffffffff8e9b1b18>] free_msi_irqs+0x188/0x190
  [ 2369.908214] RSP: 0018:ffff9f27fee1fc88  EFLAGS: 00010286
  [ 2369.908216] RAX: ffff9f37f974f300 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff9f37f974f300
  [ 2369.908218] RDX: ffff9f37f974f300 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
  [ 2369.908219] RBP: ffff9f27fee1fcb0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000146
  [ 2369.908221] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff9f37f9353140
  [ 2369.908222] R13: ffff9f57fca6b870 R14: ffff9f57fca6b000 R15: ffffffff8f0a82b7
  [ 2369.908225] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f37fcac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [ 2369.908227] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [ 2369.908229] CR2: 0000000002d7e4f0 CR3: 00000034dcc0e000 CR4: 00000000007607e0
  [ 2369.908231] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  [ 2369.908232] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  [ 2369.908233] PKRU: 00000000
  [ 2369.908234] Call Trace:
  [ 2369.908240]  [<ffffffff8e9b2f9d>] pci_disable_msix+0x3d/0x50
  [ 2369.908256]  [<ffffffffc042ad68>] i40e_reset_interrupt_capability+0x58/0xa0 [i40e]
  [ 2369.908269]  [<ffffffffc042cc11>] i40e_clear_interrupt_scheme+0xd1/0xe0 [i40e]
  [ 2369.908286]  [<ffffffffc043370b>] i40e_suspend+0xab/0xb0 [i40e]
  [ 2369.908291]  [<ffffffff8e99871f>] pci_pm_suspend+0x6f/0x150
  [ 2369.908295]  [<ffffffff8e9986b0>] ? pci_pm_freeze+0xf0/0xf0
  [ 2369.908300]  [<ffffffff8ea7f6c6>] dpm_run_callback+0x46/0x90
  [ 2369.908303]  [<ffffffff8ea7fadb>] __device_suspend+0xfb/0x2a0
  [ 2369.908306]  [<ffffffff8ea7fc9f>] async_suspend+0x1f/0xa0
  [ 2369.908311]  [<ffffffff8e6c21df>] async_run_entry_fn+0x3f/0x130
  [ 2369.908316]  [<ffffffff8e6b2dff>] process_one_work+0x17f/0x440
  [ 2369.908320]  [<ffffffff8e6b3ac6>] worker_thread+0x126/0x3c0
  [ 2369.908324]  [<ffffffff8e6b39a0>] ? manage_workers.isra.24+0x2a0/0x2a0
  [ 2369.908330]  [<ffffffff8e6bae31>] kthread+0xd1/0xe0
  [ 2369.908335]  [<ffffffff8e6bad60>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
  [ 2369.908343]  [<ffffffff8ed1f61d>] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x7/0x21
  [ 2369.908347]  [<ffffffff8e6bad60>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
  [ 2369.908389] Code: 00 00 e8 ec 4f e4 ff 49 c7 86 88 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 8b 7b 28 e8 3d da cb ff e9 35 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 f6 07 10 8b 4f 08 
  [ 2369.908393] RIP  [<ffffffff8e9b1b18>] free_msi_irqs+0x188/0x190
  [ 2369.908394]  RSP <ffff9f27fee1fc88>