RHEL6: Kernel panic "kernel BUG at drivers/net/tg3.c:6409! exception RIP: tg3_tx_recover"

Issue

• System panics with the following messages:

PANIC: "kernel BUG at drivers/net/tg3.c:6409!"

   [exception RIP: tg3_tx_recover+133]
    RIP: ffffffffa03aeb85  RSP: ffff880002203cf0  RFLAGS: 00010286
    RAX: 00000000000000af  RBX: ffff8800374566e0  RCX: 00000000ffffffff
    RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000061a37000  RDI: ffff8800374566e0
    RBP: ffff880002203d10   R8: ffff880002214008   R9: ffffffff81a01ea8
    R10: 0000000000000000  R11: 0000000000000001  R12: ffff8800374567e0
    R13: ffff8800da5e1068  R14: 0000000000000002  R15: 0000000000000000
    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
 #7 [ffff880002203d18] tg3_poll_work at ffffffffa03b3ef3 [tg3]
 #8 [ffff880002203df8] tg3_poll at ffffffffa03bef00 [tg3]
 #9 [ffff880002203e68] net_rx_action at ffffffff81460fb3
#10 [ffff880002203ec8] __do_softirq at ffffffff8107a8e1
#11 [ffff880002203f38] call_softirq at ffffffff8100c30c
#12 [ffff880002203f50] do_softirq at ffffffff8100fa75
#13 [ffff880002203f70] irq_exit at ffffffff8107a795
#14 [ffff880002203f80] do_IRQ at ffffffff81531605