System hung and the oldest 'D' state process was blocked in 'do_exit()'

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • System is not responding and sshd doesn't work as well
  • Generated vmcore shows long blocked D state tasks

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • 3rd party modules loaded
    • symev_custom_3_10_0_1127_19_1_el7_x86_64
    • symap_custom_3_10_0_1127_19_1_el7_x86_64

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