RHEL 5.5 kernel panic with "Unable to handle kernel paging request" in pskb_expand_head

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Issue

  • Kernel panic when using NFS because a struct skb_shared_info is invalid
  • kernel panic occurs with error messages.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000200000002 RIP: 
 [<ffffffff8022ac1e>] pskb_expand_head+0xa8/0x139

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4
  • kernel-2.6.18-194.32.1.el5
  • kernel-2.6.18-164.el5

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