Lockup in presence of vmsecmod kernel module

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The system experiences a soft lockup due to task being unable to acquire a locking primitive within a 3rd-party kernel module code path.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • vmsecmod kernel module

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