System crash due to kernel BUG at include/linux/fs.h with RIP __fput

Issue

• Kernel panics with the following messages:-

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[9397251.848866] kernel BUG at include/linux/fs.h:2896!
[9397251.853448] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[9397251.855788] CPU: 24 PID: 2990953 Comm: kworker/24:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W        --------- -  - 4.18.0-477.13.1.el8_8.x86_64 #1
[9397251.859690] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
[9397251.862067] Workqueue: events delayed_fput
[9397251.864715] RIP: 0010:__fput+0x249/0x250
[9397251.866296] Code: 0f 84 ac fe ff ff 41 f7 c4 00 40 00 00 0f 85 9f fe ff ff e8 49 38 00 00 e9 95 fe ff ff 4c 89 f7 e8 cc 50 02 00 e9 d3 fe ff ff <0f> 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 31 ff 48 87 3d 89 7a 58 02
[9397251.870436] RSP: 0018:ffffbe4c99287e48 EFLAGS: 00010246
[9397251.871852] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9773969e7100 RCX: 0000000000000000
[9397251.874781] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
[9397251.877197] RBP: 0000000000000010 R08: ffffbe4c99287d78 R09: ffff97a43c9c8cd0
[9397251.879600] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 000000000000000f R12: 00000000480a821d
[9397251.882216] R13: ffff978971f77c60 R14: ffff977397e13c20 R15: ffff978945b81140
[9397251.884427] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff97b1be400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[9397251.886865] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[9397251.889867] CR2: 00007fe81234d080 CR3: 00000015c0a10005 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[9397251.892063] PKRU: 55555554
[9397251.893926] Call Trace:
[9397251.895291]  delayed_fput+0x1c/0x30
[9397251.896182]  process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[9397251.897366]  worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[9397251.898625]  ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
[9397251.900135]  kthread+0x134/0x150
[9397251.901568]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
[9397251.902893]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
[9397251.904182] Modules linked in: tcp_diag udp_diag inet_diag rpcsec_gss_krb5 xt_CHECKSUM ipt_MASQUERADE nft_chain_nat nf_nat bridge stp llc nft_counter ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_multiport xt_conntrack nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 vsock_loopback vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common nft_compat nf_tables nfnetlink vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common isst_if_mbox_msr isst_if_common nfit libnvdimm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul vmw_balloon ghash_clmulni_intel rapl joydev pcspkr vmw_vmci i2c_piix4 nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace binfmt_misc sunrpc xfs libcrc32c sr_mod sd_mod cdrom t10_pi sg ata_generic vmwgfx drm_ttm_helper ttm drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops crc32c_intel drm ata_piix libata serio_raw vmxnet3 vmw_pvscsi dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse