General protection fault in do_select() due to third party network driver

Issue

• System crashed or unexpected system reboot with vmcore generation.
  Log or kernel ring buffer shows the below call traces :

crash> log
[..]
nfs: server kraken-ngs not responding, still trying  <<--

general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP    <<--

last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/class
CPU 10 
Modules linked in: hfsplus mptctl mptbase ipmi_si(U) ipmi_devintf(U) ipmi_msghandler(U) nfsd exportfs auth_rpcgss autofs4 nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl sunrpc ipv6 xfrm_nalgo crypto_api 8021q cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 freq_table dm_round_robin dm_emc dm_multipath scsi_dh video hwmon backlight sbs i2c_ec button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp parport joydev st sg nx_nic(U) i2c_piix4 hpilo ide_cd i2c_core pcspkr e1000e bnx2 serio_raw cdrom dm_raid45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_mem_cache dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod qla2xxx usb_storage lpfc scsi_transport_fc shpchp cciss sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 30057, comm: pickup Tainted: G   M  2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80011496>]  [<ffffffff80011496>] do_select+0x24f/0x43c
RSP: 0018:ffff810ea21e7a88  EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 10679dd802000406 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000060
RDX: ffff810e96145f00 RSI: ffff810ea21e7d54 RDI: 10679dd802000406
RBP: 10679dd802000406 R08: ffff810ea21e6000 R09: 000000000000003d
R10: ffff8153186f3bc0 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000005
R13: 0000000000000020 R14: ffff810ea21e7eb8 R15: 0000000000000007
FS:  00002afd955e68b0(0000) GS:ffff812040102640(0000) knlGS:00000000f7e826c0
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000f7e82710 CR3: 00000054738ec000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process pickup (pid: 30057, threadinfo ffff810ea21e6000, task ffff8102cf258080)
Stack:  ffff810ea21e7f50 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff810ea21e7dd0
 ffff810ea21e7dd8 ffff810ea21e7de0 ffff810ea21e7db8 ffff810ea21e7dc0
 ffff810ea21e7dc8 0000000000000060 0000000000000000 0000000000000060
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8001e624>] __pollwait+0x0/0xe2
 [<ffffffff8008a4b3>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
 [<ffffffff8008a4b3>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
 [<ffffffff8005bb47>] cache_alloc_refill+0x86/0x186
 [<ffffffff800888e8>] __wake_up_common+0x3e/0x68
 [<ffffffff8002df8f>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f
 [<ffffffff80012bda>] sock_def_readable+0x34/0x5f
 [<ffffffff8004a191>] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x281/0x346
 [<ffffffff8804bc81>] :ext3:ext3_htree_store_dirent+0xed/0xf8
 [<ffffffff800376b6>] do_sock_write+0xc4/0xce
 [<ffffffff800e3887>] core_sys_select+0x1bc/0x265
 [<ffffffff8005a257>] getnstimeofday+0x10/0x28
 [<ffffffff8009f9a8>] enqueue_hrtimer+0x55/0x70
 [<ffffffff8003c02e>] hrtimer_start+0xbc/0xce
 [<ffffffff80033293>] do_setitimer+0x16d/0x4b7
 [<ffffffff8001645f>] sys_select+0x153/0x17c
 [<ffffffff8005d116>] system_call+0x7e/0x83


Code: 48 8b 40 20 48 85 c0 74 1f 48 8b 40 38 48 85 c0 74 16 31 f6 
RIP  [<ffffffff80011496>] do_select+0x24f/0x43c
 RSP <ffff810ea21e7a88>
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