Kernel panic in bond_mii_monitor() function of bonding module.

Issue

• Kernel panic with following call traces.

Kernel BUG at drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h:135
invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/irq
CPU 3
Modules linked in: bonding autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth lockd sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_
cpufreq freq_table mperf be2iscsi ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp bnx2i cnic ipv6 xfrm_na
lgo crypto_api uio cxgb3i cxgb3 libiscsi_tcp libiscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi dm_mirror dm_multipath scs
i_dh video backlight sbs power_meter hwmon i2c_ec dell_wmi wmi button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp par
port sr_mod cdrom sg i2c_i801 igb tpm_tis 8021q i2c_core tpm serio_raw i7core_edac edac_mc e1000e tpm_bios dca pcspkr dm_rai
d45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod dm_mem_cache ahci libata shpchp megaraid_sas sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd o
 hci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 5054, comm: bond0 Not tainted 2.6.18-238.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88687e95>]  [<ffffffff88687e95>] :bonding:bond_mii_monitor+0x41e/0x4c0
RSP: 0018:ffff8101b0e37e10  EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 00000000ffffffff RBX: ffff8101b18a6530 RCX: 0000000000000006
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8868fe06 RDI: ffffffff80358ac0
RBP: ffff8101b18a6500 R08: ffff8101b18a66c0 R09: 0000000000000034
R10: ffff8101b0e37ab0 R11: ffffffff88687a77 R12: ffff8101bdb31a00
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffffffff88687a77
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8101063626c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00000000006bdbb0 CR3: 00000001b25ee000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process bond0 (pid: 5054, threadinfo ffff8101b0e36000, task ffff8101bf3ef7a0)
Stack:  ffff8101b18a6878 ffff8101b18a6880 ffff8101ba4b8140 0000000000000282
 ffff8101b18a6500 ffffffff8004d7ae ffff8101b0e37e80 ffff8101ba4b8140
 ffffffff80049ff6 ffff8101af11dd68 0000000000000282 ffff8101af11dd58
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8004d7ae>] run_workqueue+0x99/0xf6
 [<ffffffff80049ff6>] worker_thread+0x0/0x122
 [<ffffffff800a269c>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4
 [<ffffffff8004a0e6>] worker_thread+0xf0/0x122
 [<ffffffff8008e40a>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xe
 [<ffffffff800a269c>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4
 [<ffffffff80032974>] kthread+0xfe/0x132
 [<ffffffff8005dfb1>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
 [<ffffffff800a269c>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4
 [<ffffffff80032876>] kthread+0x0/0x132
 [<ffffffff8005dfa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11

Code: 0f 0b 68 aa 84 7a 88 c2 87 00 48 8d 5d 34 48 89 df e8 c9 4c 
RIP  [<ffffffff8879fe95>] :bonding:bond_mii_monitor+0x41e/0x4c0
 RSP <ffff8101b0e37e10>