ovs-vswitchd is crashing in loop with a Segmentation Fault

Issue

• VMs connectivity on DPDK deployment on RHOSP16.1 doesn't work

• ovs-vswitchd crashes in loop with:

ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T04:05:30.635Z|00002|daemon_unix|ERR|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (Segmentation fault))
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T09:13:00.083Z|00001|fatal_signal(pmd-c21/id:9)|WARN|terminating with    signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T11:23:02.073Z|00001|fatal_signal(pmd-c21/id:9)|WARN|terminating with signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T14:40:04.137Z|00001|fatal_signal(pmd-c21/id:9)|WARN|terminating with signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T17:58:10.211Z|00001|fatal_signal(pmd-c21/id:9)|WARN|terminating with signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T18:15:23.894Z|00002|daemon_unix|ERR|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (Segmentation fault))
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T18:15:32.653Z|00002|daemon_unix|ERR|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (Segmentation fault))
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T18:36:04.115Z|00002|daemon_unix|ERR|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (Segmentation fault))
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T18:36:08.581Z|00002|daemon_unix|ERR|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (Segmentation fault))
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T18:37:41.564Z|00001|fatal_signal(pmd-c57/id:7)|WARN|terminating with signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T18:37:42.678Z|00002|daemon_unix|ERR|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (Segmentation fault))
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T19:09:43.539Z|00001|fatal_signal(pmd-c21/id:3)|WARN|terminating with signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
ovs-vswitchd.log:2021-07-12T19:28:08.718Z|00002|daemon_unix|ERR|fork child died before signaling startup (killed (Segmentation fault))

• Running gdb against a core file returns the following backtrace:

(gdb) bt
#0  dp_packet_set_size (v=7236, b=0x0) at ../lib/dp-packet.h:495
#1  netdev_linux_batch_rxq_recv_sock (rx=<optimized out>, mtu=<optimized out>, batch=0x7ffdc1774780) at ../lib/netdev-linux.c:1293
#2  0x000055664fe2bd1f in netdev_linux_rxq_recv (rxq_=0x556651ffd830, batch=0x7ffdc1774780, qfill=0x0) at ../lib/netdev-linux.c:1493
#3  0x000055664fd7ddd5 in netdev_rxq_recv (rx=<optimized out>, batch=batch@entry=0x7ffdc1774780, qfill=<optimized out>) at ../lib/netdev.c:726
#4  0x000055664fd4ee89 in dp_netdev_process_rxq_port (pmd=pmd@entry=0x7f0dbaf89010, rxq=0x556651ffd7a0, port_no=13) at ../lib/dpif-netdev.c:4461
#5  0x000055664fd4fc7c in dpif_netdev_run (dpif=<optimized out>) at ../lib/dpif-netdev.c:5469
#6  0x000055664fd03f0c in type_run (type=<optimized out>) at ../ofproto/ofproto-dpif.c:370
#7  0x000055664fcebe0f in ofproto_type_run (datapath_type=datapath_type@entry=0x5566520ab3a0 "netdev") at ../ofproto/ofproto.c:1772
#8  0x000055664fcd955c in bridge_run__ () at ../vswitchd/bridge.c:3242
#9  0x000055664fcdfccd in bridge_run () at ../vswitchd/bridge.c:3307
#10 0x000055664f9a9f05 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ../vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.c:127