RHEL guest on VMware hypervisor crashes due to double fault.

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Issue

• RHEL guest on VMware hypervisor crashes due to double fault.

• Panic message in kernel ring buffer:

VMCIUtil: Updating context id from 0xffffffff to 0xcb9e450a on event 0.
SPLXMOD: SPLX 3.0: KHM loaded. Version [30114]
VMCIUtil: Updating context id from 0xcb9e450a to 0xcb9e450a on event 0.
VMCIUtil: Updating context id from 0xcb9e450a to 0xcb9e450a on event 0.
double fault: 0000 [#1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
CPU 3 
Modules linked in: splxmod(U) autofs4 nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc vsock(U) ipv6 ppdev parport_pc parport microcode vmware_balloon sg vmci(U) i2c_piix4 i2c_core shpchp ext4 jbd2 mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom vmxnet3 vmw_pvscsi pata_acpi ata_generic ata_piix dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: splxmod]

Pid: 17805, comm: java Not tainted 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 #1 VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810473d6>]  [<ffffffff810473d6>] __do_page_fault+0x26/0x480
RSP: 0018:00007f08fff96f88  EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f08fff970d8 RCX: 000000008100ba4e
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000cbc0 RDI: 00007f08fff970d8
RBP: 00007f08fff97098 R08: 00007f08f807ec50 R09: 0000000004000001
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000cbc0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f08fffb7700(0000) GS:ffff8800282c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f08fff96f78 CR3: 000000042bf0f000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process java (pid: 17805, threadinfo ffff88013c7e6000, task ffff8802c6436080)
Stack:
 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
<d> 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
<d> 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 81 ec 10 01 00 00 48 89 5d d8 4c 89 65 e0 4c 89 6d e8 4c 89 75 f0 4c 89 7d f8 0f 1f 44 00 00 89 d0 <48> 89 bd 00 ff ff ff 49 89 d7 83 e0 02 49 89 f5 83 f8 01 89 85 
RIP  [<ffffffff810473d6>] __do_page_fault+0x26/0x480
 RSP <00007f08fff96f88>

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• VMware ESXi

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