RHEL6: crash in "nouveau" driver initialization

Issue

• RHEL6 crashes in "nouveau" driver initialization:

[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0x8E00                                               
[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0x9074                                               
[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset 0x90D9                                                 
[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: unknown i2c port 51                                                                       
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010                                             
IP: [<ffffffffa00b6636>] i2c_transfer+0x16/0x140 [i2c_core]                                                           
PGD 0                                                                                                                 
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP                                                                                                   
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/loop4/removable                                                           
CPU 0                                                                                                                 
Modules linked in: nouveau(+) ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core mxm_wmi wmi video output sd_mod crc_t10dif dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod aacraid ahci megaraid_sas