smb service is crashing intermittently with "INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 6: Aborted in pid xxx (4.15.5)" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6

Issue

• smb service is crashing intermittently with "INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 6: Aborted in pid xxx (4.15.5)."
• The following logs can be seen in /var/log/messages file when smb is crashing.

smbd[1208486]:  ===============================================================
smbd[1208486]: [2022/07/22 09:26:02.278133,  0] ../../lib/util/fault.c:176(smb_panic_log)
smbd[1208486]:  INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 6: Aborted in pid 1208486 (4.15.5)
smbd[1208486]: [2022/07/22 09:26:02.278156,  0] ../../lib/util/fault.c:181(smb_panic_log)
smbd[1208486]:  If you are running a recent Samba version, and if you think this problem is not yet fixed in the latest versions, please consider reporting this bug, see https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Bug
_Reporting
smbd[1208486]: [2022/07/22 09:26:02.278180,  0] ../../lib/util/fault.c:182(smb_panic_log)
smbd[1208486]:  ===============================================================
smbd[1208486]: [2022/07/22 09:26:02.278201,  0] ../../lib/util/fault.c:184(smb_panic_log)
smbd[1208486]:  PANIC (pid 1208486): Signal 6: Aborted in 4.15.5
smbd[1208486]: [2022/07/22 09:26:02.278761,  0] ../../lib/util/fault.c:288(log_stack_trace)
smbd[1208486]:  BACKTRACE: 34 stack frames:
smbd[1208486]:   #0 /lib64/libsamba-util.so.0(log_stack_trace+0x34) [0x7fb6834f55e4]
smbd[1208486]:   #1 /lib64/libsamba-util.so.0(smb_panic+0xd) [0x7fb6834f583d]
smbd[1208486]:   #2 /lib64/libsamba-util.so.0(+0xe8d9) [0x7fb6834f58d9]
smbd[1208486]:   #3 /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x12ce0) [0x7fb6825e1ce0]
smbd[1208486]:   #4 /lib64/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x10f) [0x7fb681f3fa9f]
smbd[1208486]:   #5 /lib64/libc.so.6(abort+0x127) [0x7fb681f12e05] 
smbd[1208486]:   #6 /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x684e) [0x7fb6825d584e]
smbd[1208486]:   #7 /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x7bfd) [0x7fb6825d6bfd]
smbd[1208486]:   #8 /lib64/libc.so.6(setregid+0x7e) [0x7fb682017cce]
smbd[1208486]:   #9 /usr/lib64/security/pam_keyinit.so(pam_sm_open_session+0x1cb) [0x7fb672c82e9b]
smbd[1208486]:   #10 /lib64/libpam.so.0(+0x37b4) [0x7fb67dd8f7b4]
smbd[1208486]:   #11 /usr/lib64/samba/libauth-samba4.so(+0xd595) [0x7fb68339b595]
smbd[1208486]:   #12 /usr/lib64/samba/libauth-samba4.so(smb_pam_claim_session+0xa9) [0x7fb68339ba89]
smbd[1208486]:   #13 /usr/lib64/samba/libsmbd-base-samba4.so(session_claim+0xcd) [0x7fb6830bf40d]
smbd[1208486]:   #14 /usr/lib64/samba/libsmbd-base-samba4.so(+0x15f846) [0x7fb683157846]
smbd[1208486]:   #15 /usr/lib64/samba/libgensec-samba4.so(+0xdb2d) [0x7fb68197cb2d]
smbd[1208486]:   #16 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(tevent_common_invoke_immediate_handler+0x182) [0x7fb6827f72f2]
smbd[1208486]:   #17 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(tevent_common_loop_immediate+0x27) [0x7fb6827f7327]
smbd[1208486]:   #18 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(+0xe2ef) [0x7fb6827fd2ef]
smbd[1208486]:   #19 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(+0xc4fb) [0x7fb6827fb4fb]
smbd[1208486]:   #20 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(_tevent_loop_once+0x95) [0x7fb6827f61e5]
smbd[1208486]:   #21 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(tevent_common_loop_wait+0x1b) [0x7fb6827f648b]
smbd[1208486]:   #22 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(+0xc48b) [0x7fb6827fb48b]
smbd[1208486]:   #23 /usr/lib64/samba/libsmbd-base-samba4.so(smbd_process+0x840) [0x7fb683140320]
smbd[1208486]:   #24 /usr/sbin/smbd(+0xeb4c) [0x5620aaa5ab4c]
smbd[1208486]:   #25 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(tevent_common_invoke_fd_handler+0x97) [0x7fb6827f6d87]
smbd[1208486]:   #26 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(+0xe50f) [0x7fb6827fd50f]
smbd[1208486]:   #27 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(+0xc4fb) [0x7fb6827fb4fb]
smbd[1208486]:   #28 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(_tevent_loop_once+0x95) [0x7fb6827f61e5]
smbd[1208486]:   #29 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(tevent_common_loop_wait+0x1b) [0x7fb6827f648b]
smbd[1208486]:   #30 /lib64/libtevent.so.0(+0xc48b) [0x7fb6827fb48b]
smbd[1208486]:   #31 /usr/sbin/smbd(main+0x1d19) [0x5620aaa54d59]
smbd[1208486]:   #32 /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3) [0x7fb681f2bcf3]
smbd[1208486]:   #33 /usr/sbin/smbd(_start+0x2e) [0x5620aaa5507e]
smbd[1208486]: [2022/07/22 09:26:02.279123,  0] ../../source3/lib/dumpcore.c:318(dump_core)
smbd[1208486]:  coredump is handled by helper binary specified at /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern