Memory corruption by specific string or its part in presence of cbsensor/event_collector module

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The system experiences kernel panic due to random memory corruption while having cbsensor/event_collector module loaded.

The memory gets overwritten with the [eventfd] string (most often), its part (for instance, 0x655b hex sequence; less often) or another ASCII sequence.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • cbsensor or event_collector (event_collector_1_6_7339) kernel module

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