Kernel: Race condition in hashtables causes kworker thread to loop into rht_deferred_worker() function
Issue
- Kernel: Race condition in hashtables causes kworker kernel thread to loop into rht_deferred_worker() function.
- kworker kernel thread spinning at ~100% CPU.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Prior to Kernel version kernel-3.10.0-1127.el7
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