A VMware guest crashes due to seemingly spurious exceptions trapped at NOPL instructions

Issue

• A VM crashes due to NULL pointer dereference and/or invalid_op exception seemingly caused by spurious exceptions trapped at NOPL instructions.

invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000007
PGD 0 P4D 0 
Oops: 0002 [#2] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE     -------- -  - 4.18.0-553.34.1.el8_10.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
RIP: 0010:vt_console_print+0x0/0x400
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <00> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffb6c5463b0c60 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: 0000000000000047 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000035 RSI: ffffffff8c903b60 RDI: ffffffff8c0d9d80
RBP: ffffffff8c0d9d80 R08: ffffffff8a81be10 R09: 303030203a65646f
R10: 53205d31235b766e R11: 4954504f4e206e69 R12: ffffffff8c1c4960
R13: 0000000000000035 R14: ffffffff8c903b60 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9d49ffcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000007 CR3: 0000000024e10005 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 ? __die_body+0x1a/0x60
 ? no_context+0x1ba/0x3f0
 ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x157/0x180
 ? do_page_fault+0x37/0x12d
 ? page_fault+0x1e/0x30
 ? screen_glyph_unicode+0x90/0x90
 ? screen_glyph_unicode+0x90/0x90
 console_unlock+0x366/0x4b0
 vprintk_emit+0x151/0x250
 printk+0x58/0x73
 __die_header+0x6e/0x77
 __die+0x17/0x36
 die+0x2a/0x50
 do_trap+0xe7/0x110
 ? add_interrupt_randomness+0x2/0x230
 do_invalid_op+0x36/0x40
 ? add_interrupt_randomness+0x2/0x230
 invalid_op+0x14/0x20
RIP: 0010:add_interrupt_randomness+0x2/0x230
Code: 44 89 e2 89 ee e8 ce f0 3e 00 48 8b 03 48 85 c0 75 e6 5b 5d 41 5c e9 58 b9 6c 00 e9 53 b9 6c 00 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f <44> 00 00 55 53 48 c7 c3 00 11 03 00 48 83 ec 10 65 48 8b 04 25 28
RSP: 0018:ffffb6c5463b0f58 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9d3b6a17ba00 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: ffff9d49ffcf4a40 RSI: ffff9d49ffcf4a40 RDI: 000000000000003a
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff9d49ffcf4a40 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9d3b6a17ba00
R13: 0000000000000027 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfcdfd
 handle_irq_event_percpu+0x3a/0x80
 handle_irq_event+0x36/0x57
 handle_edge_irq+0x82/0x190
 handle_irq+0x1c/0x30
 do_IRQ+0x49/0xd0
 common_interrupt+0xf/0xf
 </IRQ>
RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0xe/0x20
Code: 00 a8 08 75 be e9 23 ff ff ff 31 ff e9 6a ff ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 e9 07 00 00 00 0f 00 2d 46 41 5e 00 fb f4 <e9> a8 dc 2d 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 e9 07 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffb6c5462ebe28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffd8
RAX: 0000000080004000 RBX: ffff9d3b07324464 RCX: 0000000000000020
RDX: ffffffff8a7c6ea0 RSI: ffffffff8c0d1ce0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffff9d3b07324464 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff9d3b07324400
R10: 0000000000000315 R11: ffff9d49ffcf2484 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffffffff8c0d1ce0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
 ? acpi_processor_thermal_init.cold.6+0x66/0x66
 ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfcdfd
 acpi_idle_do_entry+0x93/0xa0
 acpi_idle_enter+0x5f/0xd0
 cpuidle_enter_state+0x86/0x470
 cpuidle_enter+0x2c/0x40
 do_idle+0x26f/0x2d0
 cpu_startup_entry+0x6f/0x80
 start_secondary+0x187/0x1d0
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xd1/0xdb
Modules linked in: ...
CR2: 0000000000000007