RHEL7: PANIC: general protection fault: in virtio_check_driver_offered_feature

Issue

• The system rebooted for no obvious reason.
• The Panic type is general Protection Fault and the routine that failed is virtio_check_driver_offered_feature.
• Kernel panic with below logs:

[828603.338044] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
[828603.339262] Modules linked in: iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi macsec tcp_diag udp_diag inet_diag unix_diag af_packet_diag netlink_diag binfmt_misc ext4 mbcache jbd2 ppdev iosf_mbi crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd sg joydev parport_pc virtio_rng virtio_balloon parport i2c_piix4 pcspkr nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic ata_generic pata_acpi virtio_net virtio_console virtio_blk virtio_scsi qxl drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm ata_piix drm libata serio_raw crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32c_intel virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio drm_panel_orientation_quirks dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[828603.347047] CPU: 0 PID: 28406 Comm: sg_inq Kdump: loaded Not tainted 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[828603.348119] Hardware name: Red Hat RHEV Hypervisor, BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
[828603.349277] task: ffff9a0e357fc1c0 ti: ffff9a0a12ac0000 task.ti: ffff9a0a12ac0000
[828603.350452] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc0056446>]  [<ffffffffc0056446>] virtio_check_driver_offered_feature+0x6/0x90 [virtio]
[828603.351640] RSP: 0018:ffff9a0a12ac3d70  EFLAGS: 00010282
[828603.352849] RAX: ffff9a0e60770600 RBX: 73042507e9028200 RCX: 00007ffdf7ca4150
[828603.353949] RDX: 0000000000002285 RSI: 0000000000000007 RDI: 73042507e9028200
[828603.355100] RBP: ffff9a0a12ac3da8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[828603.356204] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9a0e628c8000
[828603.357390] R13: 000000000000005d R14: 0000000000002285 R15: 00007ffdf7ca4150
[828603.358539] FS:  00007ff366758740(0000) GS:ffff9a0e67200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[828603.359626] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[828603.360736] CR2: 0000000000402759 CR3: 00000005bef14000 CR4: 00000000000406f0
[828603.362016] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[828603.363119] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[828603.364182] Call Trace:
[828603.365312]  [<ffffffffc0140b4c>] ? virtblk_ioctl+0x3c/0x70 [virtio_blk]
[828603.366357]  [<ffffffff8cb62ac5>] __blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x25/0x40
[828603.367413]  [<ffffffffc0017024>] dm_blk_ioctl+0x74/0xb0 [dm_mod]
[828603.368458]  [<ffffffff8ca473fa>] ? __check_object_size+0x1ca/0x250
[828603.369500]  [<ffffffff8cb6350a>] blkdev_ioctl+0x28a/0xa20
[828603.370564]  [<ffffffff8ca8a931>] block_ioctl+0x41/0x50
[828603.371564]  [<ffffffff8ca5fbc0>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3a0/0x5a0
[828603.372631]  [<ffffffff8ca5fe61>] SyS_ioctl+0xa1/0xc0
[828603.373649]  [<ffffffff8cf8dede>] system_call_fastpath+0x25/0x2a
[828603.374703]  [<ffffffff8cf8de21>] ? system_call_after_swapgs+0xae/0x146
[828603.375717] Code: 89 e5 53 8b 5f f0 e8 ea b2 c5 cc 89 de 48 c7 c7 e0 83 05 c0 e8 5c ca b2 cc 5b 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 66 66 66 90 55 <48> 8b 8f a0 00 00 00 48 89 e5 8b 91 90 00 00 00 85 d2 74 2c 48
[828603.377803] RIP  [<ffffffffc0056446>] virtio_check_driver_offered_feature+0x6/0x90 [virtio]
[828603.378929]  RSP <ffff9a0a12ac3d70>