Why the system crashed at "walk_component()" with an invalid offset address?

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

Kernel panic at walk_component+0x1da with following message in the logs.

[529222.202516] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00000000fffffffe
[529222.202520] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
..
[529222.202523] Hardware name: HP HP Z2 SFF G9 Workstation Desktop PC/895D, BIOS U50 Ver. 03.04.08 06/23/2025
[529222.202523] RIP: 0010:walk_component+0x1da/0x300

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • HP Hardware

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