Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 system panic with EIP is at find_inode

Issue

• Kernel panic with following messages.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000029
printing eip:
c0180438
*pde = 112df001
*pte = 00000000
Oops: 0000
netconsole nls_iso8859-1 ide-cd udf ipmi_devintf ipmi_si_drv ipmi_msghandler del
l_rbu audit usbserial lp parport autofs4 e1000 bnx2 crc32 microcode floppy sg
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c0180438>]    Tainted: GF
EFLAGS: 00010217

EIP is at find_inode [kernel] 0x28 (2.4.21-27.ELsmp/i686)
eax: 00000000   ebx: 00000001   ecx: 0007ffff   edx: c69ae600
esi: 00000000   edi: c6c73368   ebp: 00011100   esp: f6647e90
ds: 0068   es: 0068   ss: 0068
Process updatedb (pid: 30190, stackpage=f6647000)
Stack: 00000000 e47ab754 00011100 c6c73368 00011100 f63c3800 c01807d1
       f63c3800 00011100 c6c73368 00000000 00000000 00011100 c8010c80 f63c3800
       e48b1780 f886d76d f63c3800 00011100 00000000 00000000 e478a2d0 fffffff4
Call Trace:   [<c01807d1>] iget4_locked [kernel] 0x61 (0xf6647eac)
[<f886d76d>] ext3_lookup [ext3] 0x7d (0xf6647ed4)
[<c01728ec>] real_lookup [kernel] 0xec (0xf6647ef8)
[<c0172f1c>] link_path_walk [kernel] 0x45c (0xf6647f18)
[<c0173469>] path_lookup [kernel] 0x39 (0xf6647f58)
[<c01737b9>] __user_walk [kernel] 0x49 (0xf6647f68)
[<c016e64e>] sys_lstat64 [kernel] 0x2e (0xf6647f84)
[<c016297b>] sys_fchdir [kernel] 0x4b (0xf6647fa0)

Code: 39 6b 28 89 de 75 f1 8b 44 24 20 39 83 ac 00 00 00 75 e5 8b