[RHEL 7] System was panicked with message "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)" due to involvement of 3rd party module drbd.

Issue

• Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) due to 3rd party module drbd :

[7607788.160002] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
[7607788.161112] IP: [<          (null)>]           (null)
[7607788.162086] PGD 0 
[7607788.163108] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP 
[7607788.164122] Modules linked in: ext4 mbcache jbd2 drbd_transport_tcp(OE) drbd(OE) sisfim(PE) 8021q garp mrp stp llc udp_diag tcp_diag inet_diag sisap(POE) vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock sunrpc sb_edac iosf_mbi crc32_pclmul ppdev ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper vmw_balloon cryptd vmwgfx pcspkr joydev sg ttm drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm vmw_vmci i2c_piix4 drm_panel_orientation_quirks parport_pc parport sisips(PE) sisevt(PE) binfmt_misc ip_tables xfs dm_thin_pool dm_persistent_data dm_bio_prison dm_bufio libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom ata_generic pata_acpi sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic ahci nfit libahci ata_piix serio_raw crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common libata crc32c_intel libnvdimm vmw_pvscsi vmxnet3 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log
[7607788.168355]  dm_mod fuse
[7607788.169087] CPU: 1 PID: 6262 Comm: drbd_w Kdump: loaded Tainted: P           OE  ------------   3.10.0-1160.2.2.el7.x86_64 #1
[7607788.169820] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 12/12/2018
[7607788.170567] task: ffff99942d654200 ti: ffff999750984000 task.ti: ffff999750984000
[7607788.171324] RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>]  [<          (null)>]           (null)
[7607788.172106] RSP: 0018:ffff999750987dd0  EFLAGS: 00010246
[7607788.172920] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff999750987e18 RCX: ffffffffc06e232c
[7607788.173773] RDX: 00000000000004ea RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff99975098b288
[7607788.174558] RBP: ffff999750987e80 R08: 0000000000000c61 R09: 0000000000000160
[7607788.175322] R10: 00000002c570a454 R11: 0000000000000010 R12: ffff99975098b160
[7607788.176116] R13: ffff99975098b288 R14: ffff99975098b4c0 R15: ffff99975098b4b8
[7607788.176896] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9997bfc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[7607788.177687] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[7607788.178455] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000a31ac000 CR4: 00000000001607e0
[7607788.179385] Call Trace:
[7607788.180278]  [<ffffffffc068d0e2>] ? drbd_worker+0x112/0x530 [drbd]
[7607788.181164]  [<ffffffff960c6d10>] ? wake_up_atomic_t+0x30/0x30
[7607788.181970]  [<ffffffffc06b2330>] ? do_retry+0x290/0x290 [drbd]
[7607788.182796]  [<ffffffffc06b23e6>] drbd_thread_setup+0xb6/0x1f0 [drbd]
[7607788.183875]  [<ffffffffc06b2330>] ? do_retry+0x290/0x290 [drbd]
[7607788.185080]  [<ffffffff960c5c21>] kthread+0xd1/0xe0
[7607788.185866]  [<ffffffff960c5b50>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
[7607788.186648]  [<ffffffff96793df7>] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x21/0x21
[7607788.187458]  [<ffffffff960c5b50>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
[7607788.188245] Code:  Bad RIP value.
[7607788.189018] RIP  [<          (null)>]           (null)
[7607788.189817]  RSP <ffff999750987dd0>
[7607788.190596] CR2: 0000000000000000