Kernel panic during deflation of virtio balloon (virtual machine)

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Kernel (virtual machine) panics due to bad pointer dereference during deflation of the virtio balloon
    (see Diagnostic Steps for more info)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 (and earlier)
  • Virtual machine

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