System is stuck in the function symev_hook_syscalls() due to kernel panic.
Issue
- After upgrading the system to 7.5, system is stuck on boot with panic error:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at <HEX-ADDRESS> - While booting, kernel throws the following message
WARNING : module 'symev_rh_ES_7_3_10_0_693_el7_x86_64' built without retpoline-enabled compiler, may affect Spectre v2 mitigation
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
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