Kernel panic with trace "kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000350 RIP: packet_rcv+0x42/0x3c0"

Issue

• Kernel panic with below trace:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000350 RIP: 
 [<ffffffff80047ca5>] packet_rcv+0x42/0x3c0
PGD 6fb21e067 PUD 7a3e6f067 PMD 0 
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /devices/system/cpu/cpu15/cache/index3/shared_cpu_map
CPU 14 
Modules linked in: sg tux zlib_deflate nfs nfs_acl autofs4 ipmi_devintf ipmi_si ipmi_msghandler lockd sunrpc bonding be2iscsi ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp bnx2i cnic ipv6 xfrm_nalgo crypto_api uio cxgb3i libcxgbi cxgb3 libiscsi_tcp libiscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi dm_multipath scsi_dh video backlight sbs power_meter hwmon i2c_ec i2c_core dell_wmi wmi button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp parport be2net 8021q hpilo tg3 serio_raw tpm_tis tpm shpchp tpm_bios pcspkr dm_raid45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_mem_cache dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod ata_piix libata cciss sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80047ca5>]  [<ffffffff80047ca5>] packet_rcv+0x42/0x3c0
RSP: 0018:ffff81103fd33dc0  EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffff8102d2ec03c0 RCX: ffff811039af0000
RDX: ffff8110342a7e50 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8102d2ec03c0
RBP: ffff8102d2ec03c0 R08: ffff8110342a7e50 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000080 R12: ffff8110342a7c00
R13: ffff811039af0000 R14: ffff811bc7c6b410 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff81203fe22bc0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000350 CR3: 00000007a3e6e000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff81103fd2c000, task ffff81203fe28860)
Stack:  ffff811039af0000 00000034d2ec03c0 ffff8102d2ec0418 ffffffff805c60d0
 ffff8102d2ec03c0 000000000042c102 ffff811039af0000 000000010e260000
 ffff81103904c3b0 ffffffff8002090a ffff8102d2ec03c0 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8002090a>] netif_receive_skb+0x28d/0x49f
 [<ffffffff88261705>] :be2net:be_poll_rx_compat+0x3c3/0xb8d
 [<ffffffff8008fa91>] rebalance_tick+0x184/0x3ce
 [<ffffffff8000c9bf>] net_rx_action+0xac/0x1b1
 [<ffffffff80012531>] __do_softirq+0x89/0x133
 [<ffffffff8005e2fc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 [<ffffffff8006d646>] do_softirq+0x2c/0x7d
 [<ffffffff8006d4d6>] do_IRQ+0xee/0xf7
 [<ffffffff8005d615>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff801a469d>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x14f/0x341
 [<ffffffff801a4676>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x128/0x341
 [<ffffffff801a454e>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x0/0x341
 [<ffffffff80048f65>] cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8
 [<ffffffff80078ae2>] start_secondary+0x479/0x488


Code: 48 83 be 50 03 00 00 00 74 77 66 41 83 7c 24 3a 02 74 32 44 
RIP  [<ffffffff80047ca5>] packet_rcv+0x42/0x3c0
 RSP <ffff81103fd33dc0>