RHEL 5 kernel panics in Solarflare driver code with message "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference"
Issue
System is experiencing kernel panics while bonding slave failovers. On the console, customer sees the following kernel stack trace message:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP:
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 - kernel-2.6.18-194.el5
Solarflare network driver version 3.0.8.2221 (3rd party)
Linux Network Bonding implemented
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