Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt during boot at bnx2x_start_xmit+0x1462/0x1bd0

Issue

• The panic occurs intermittently

• The partial panic output shows the following:

  [   15.134163]  [<ffffffff815ed754>] inet_sendmsg+0x64/0xb0
  [   15.134367]  [<ffffffff812ac063>] ? selinux_socket_sendmsg+0x23/0x30
  [   15.134575]  [<ffffffff81555ef0>] sock_sendmsg+0xb0/0xf0
  [   15.134780]  [<ffffffff8118b3c6>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x176/0x420
  [   15.134985]  [<ffffffff815566a7>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x2b7/0x3c0
  [   15.135190]  [<ffffffff812b8c89>] ? hashtab_search+0x59/0x80
  [   15.135395]  [<ffffffff815dcc79>] ? ip4_datagram_release_cb+0x69/0x1b0
  [   15.135601]  [<ffffffff815aee2d>] ? __ip_route_output_key_hash+0x1fd/0x930
  [   15.135808]  [<ffffffff8168e93b>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x40
  [   15.136015]  [<ffffffff8155a488>] ? release_sock+0x118/0x170
  [   15.136219]  [<ffffffff8155705f>] __sys_sendmmsg+0x9f/0x190
  [   15.136426]  [<ffffffff81555db0>] ? SYSC_connect+0x90/0x120
  [   15.136630]  [<ffffffff81552c70>] ? sock_alloc_file+0xa0/0x140
  [   15.136835]  [<ffffffff8121d447>] ? __fd_install+0x47/0x60
  [   15.137039]  [<ffffffff81557162>] SyS_sendmmsg+0x12/0x30
  [   15.137242]  [<ffffffff81697709>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  [   15.137444] Code: 84 e0 f5 ff ff e9 b9 f5 ff ff be e0 01 00 00 48 c7 c7 d5 8e
  1c a0 e8 2e e5 ef e0 e9 c5 f5 ff ff 85 c9 75 2e 48 8b 43 40 4c 89 f7 <0f> b6 80
  f6 01 00 00 48 c1 e0 09 49 03 87 d0 08 00 00 83 80 60
  [   15.141692] RIP  [<ffffffffa01878c2>] bnx2x_start_xmit+0x1462/0x1bd0 [bnx2x]
  [   15.141961]  RSP <ffff883ff2317568>
  [   15.142161] CR2: 00000000000001f6
  [   15.142361] ---[ end trace 1e344f167d36d84c ]---
  [   15.143783] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt"