RHEL7 on VMware crashes with the following backtrace error: kernel BUG at drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c:1372

Issue

• RHEL 7.3 VMware guest crashes with the following backtrace:

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  [2406727.448498] kernel BUG at drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c:1372!
  [2406727.448516] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP 
  [2406727.448530] Modules linked in: oracleadvm(POE) oracleoks(POE) oracleafd(POE) nfsv3 rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs fscache vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock ppdev vmw_balloon intel_powerclamp coretemp iosf_mbi crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd pcspkr sg parport_pc parport vmw_vmci i2c_piix4 shpchp nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace sunrpc binfmt_misc ip_tables ext4 mbcache jbd2 sr_mod cdrom ata_generic pata_acpi sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32c_intel vmwgfx serio_raw drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm vmxnet3 drm ata_piix libata vmw_pvscsi i2c_core fjes dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
  [2406727.448782] CPU: 3 PID: 98000 Comm: ora_j003_iref03 Tainted: P           OE  ------------   3.10.0-514.6.2.el7.x86_64 #1
  [2406727.448814] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 09/21/2015
  [2406727.448880] task: ffff88354d2fce70 ti: ffff882a76b6c000 task.ti: ffff882a76b6c000
  [2406727.448902] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa015a014>]  [<ffffffffa015a014>] vmxnet3_rq_rx_complete+0xb94/0xc10 [vmxnet3]
  [2406727.448942] RSP: 0000:ffff883f3d6c3d90  EFLAGS: 00010246
  [2406727.449532] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff883629ae1538 RCX: 0000000000000000
  [2406727.449551] RDX: 00000000000005f2 RSI: 00000000000005f2 RDI: ffff8834f16e2a00
  [2406727.449569] RBP: ffff883f3d6c3df8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  [2406727.449588] R10: ffff88361fb60910 R11: ffff88361bbb4d98 R12: ffff883629ae08c0
  [2406727.449606] R13: ffff883629ae1440 R14: ffff880096bbc300 R15: ffff88361f28cde0
  [2406727.449625] FS:  00007ffff7fe3280(0000) GS:ffff883f3d6c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  [2406727.449646] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  [2406727.449662] CR2: 00007fffd00156d0 CR3: 00000034c4277000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
  [2406727.449716] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  [2406727.449747] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  [2406727.449781] Stack:
  [2406727.449788]  ffff883629ae1460 ffff88361bbb4d98 ffff88361fb60910 0000002f7523d340
  [2406727.449810]  0000000000000000 0000004000010000 ffff883629ae1500 0000009100000000
  [2406727.449832]  ffff883629ae08c0 ffff883629ae1460 0000000000000040 ffff883629ae1440
  [2406727.449855] Call Trace:
  [2406727.449862]  <IRQ> 
  [2406727.449873] 
  [2406727.449880]  [<ffffffffa015a53a>] vmxnet3_poll_rx_only+0x3a/0xb0 [vmxnet3]
  [2406727.449904]  [<ffffffff815702d0>] net_rx_action+0x170/0x380
  [2406727.449924]  [<ffffffff8108f21f>] __do_softirq+0xef/0x280
  [2406727.449944]  [<ffffffff8169825c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
  [2406727.449963]  [<ffffffff8102d365>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
  [2406727.449980]  [<ffffffff8108f5b5>] irq_exit+0x115/0x120
  [2406727.450000]  [<ffffffff81698df8>] do_IRQ+0x58/0xf0
  [2406727.450022]  [<ffffffff8168df6d>] common_interrupt+0x6d/0x6d
  [2406727.450039]  <EOI> 
  [2406727.450048] 
  [2406727.450056]  [<ffffffff816968eb>] ? sysret_audit+0x17/0x21
  [2406727.450068] Code: b0 e8 91 23 1e e1 44 8b 4d b0 e9 41 f7 ff ff 0f 0b 0f 0b 31 c0 e9 08 f8 ff ff 0f 0b 41 3b 95 6c 01 00 00 0f 84 fc f4 ff     ff 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 0f 0b 41 f6 47 09 40 0f 84 7c f5 ff ff 
  [2406727.450174] RIP  [<ffffffffa015a014>] vmxnet3_rq_rx_complete+0xb94/0xc10 [vmxnet3]
  [2406727.450199]  RSP <ffff883f3d6c3d90>