RHEL5 kernel crashed with ":netxen_nic:netxen_process_rcv_ring+0x8a4/0x9f4"

Issue

• Server crashed and logs from vmcore or console show a call trace similar to:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000100100 RIP: 
 [<ffffffff882d0fcc>] :netxen_nic:netxen_process_rcv_ring+0x8a4/0x9f4
PGD 407b7c0067 PUD 407e390067 PMD 0 
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /block/cciss!c0d1/cciss!c0d1p1/stat
CPU 4 
Modules linked in: oracleacfs(PU) oracleadvm(PU) oracleoks(PU) mptctl mptbase oracleasm(U) nfs nfs_acl lockd sunrpc bonding be2iscsi ib_iser rdma_cm ib_cm iw_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp bnx2i cnic ipv6 xfrm_nalgo crypto_api uio cxgb3i libcxgbi cxgb3 libiscsi_tcp libiscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi2 scsi_transport_iscsi dm_round_robin dm_multipath scsi_dh video backlight sbs power_meter hwmon i2c_ec i2c_core dell_wmi wmi button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac parport_pc lp parport joydev sr_mod cdrom st sg tpm_tis shpchp tpm bnx2 netxen_nic tpm_bios hpilo i7core_edac serio_raw pcspkr 8021q edac_mc dm_raid45 dm_message dm_region_hash dm_mem_cache dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod usb_storage lpfc scsi_transport_fc ata_piix libata cciss sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P     ---- 2.6.18-308.16.1.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff882d0fcc>]  [<ffffffff882d0fcc>] :netxen_nic:netxen_process_rcv_ring+0x8a4/0x9f4
RSP: 0018:ffff810171d23e10  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff81607aa53178 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff811b338ba012 RDI: 0000001b338ba012
RBP: ffff8140800dbdc0 R08: ffff811b3732c812 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff811b338b4280 R11: 00000000000000c8 R12: 0000000000100100
R13: 0000000000000051 R14: ffff81207a72d500 R15: ffff81607aa530e8
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff810171c900c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000100100 CR3: 000000407fd46000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff8140800d8000, task ffff8120800907e0)
Stack:  0000008000000296 ffffc20011b02bb8 0000000200000369 ffff810171d23eb8
 00000000882cbec3 ffff81207a72d000 0000000000000083 0000000000000083
 ffffffff80451680 0000000000000000 ffffffff801706f5 0000000000010000
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff801706f5>] end_msi_irq_w_maskbit+0xf/0x1c
 [<ffffffff800be1a7>] __do_IRQ+0x143/0x15b
 [<ffffffff882cefe0>] :netxen_nic:netxen_process_cmd_ring+0x2e/0x1bf
 [<ffffffff882cce71>] :netxen_nic:netxen_nic_poll+0x4a/0xf8
 [<ffffffff8000c9bf>] net_rx_action+0xac/0x1b1
 [<ffffffff80012592>] __do_softirq+0x89/0x133
 [<ffffffff8005e2fc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28
 [<ffffffff8006d646>] do_softirq+0x2c/0x7d
 [<ffffffff8005dc8e>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x6c
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff801a4c2b>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x1c5/0x341
 [<ffffffff801a4be8>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x182/0x341
 [<ffffffff801a4a66>] acpi_processor_idle_simple+0x0/0x341
 [<ffffffff800490ad>] cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8
 [<ffffffff80078af0>] start_secondary+0x479/0x488


Code: 49 8b 04 24 0f 18 08 49 39 dc 75 e2 48 8d 7d 40 e8 84 3a d9 
RIP  [<ffffffff882d0fcc>] :netxen_nic:netxen_process_rcv_ring+0x8a4/0x9f4
 RSP <ffff810171d23e10>