Backtrace

NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [vmtoolsd:1229]
Modules linked in: xt_CHECKSUM ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 tun devlink cmac arc4 md4 nls_utf8 cifs ccm dns_resolver ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack ebtable_nat ebtable_broute bridge stp llc ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6table_security ip6table_raw iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat iptable_mangle iptable_security iptable_raw nf_conntrack ip_set nfnetlink ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock sunrpc iosf_mbi crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul ppdev glue_helper vmw_balloon ablk_helper sg cryptd vmw_vmci parport_pc pcspkr parport joydev i2c_piix4 ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod
cdrom ata_generic pata_acpi vmwgfx sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ahci ttm crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32c_intel libahci drm ata_piix serio_raw nfit libata vmxnet3 libnvdimm vmw_pvscsi drm_panel_orientation_quirks dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse
CPU: 0 PID: 1229 Comm: vmtoolsd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G             L ------------   3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/28/2017
task: ffff96dcf4fe4200 ti: ffff96dc7ef48000 task.ti: ffff96dc7ef48000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff83cd80b7>]  [<ffffffff83cd80b7>] kernfs_dop_revalidate+0x27/0xf0
RSP: 0018:ffff96dc7ef4bb90  EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: ffff96fabc1b0b90 RBX: ffffffff83d08642 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff96fabee1ca80
RBP: ffff96dc7ef4bba8 R08: 00000000322d6d64 R09: 8080808080808080
R10: fefefefefefefeff R11: ffff96fabee1ca80 R12: ffff96dc7ef4bd90
R13: 0000000000000005 R14: ffff96dcf4fe4200 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007fc4d1c31780(0000) GS:ffff96fabf200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc4d1c57000 CR3: 000000017db50000 CR4: 00000000003607f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff83c59eca>] lookup_fast+0x1da/0x230
[<ffffffff83cdaf44>] ? kernfs_iop_follow_link+0x194/0x1d0
[<ffffffff83c5c2a1>] link_path_walk+0x4e1/0x8b0
[<ffffffff83c5c7da>] path_lookupat+0x7a/0x8d0
[<ffffffff83c28635>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x35/0x1f0
[<ffffffff83c5fbcf>] ? getname_flags+0x4f/0x1a0
[<ffffffff83c5d05b>] filename_lookup+0x2b/0xc0
[<ffffffff83c60d67>] user_path_at_empty+0x67/0xc0
[<ffffffff83c53915>] ? cp_new_stat+0x165/0x1a0
[<ffffffff83c60dd1>] user_path_at+0x11/0x20
[<ffffffff83c535c3>] vfs_fstatat+0x63/0xc0
[<ffffffff83c5397e>] SYSC_newstat+0x2e/0x60
[<ffffffff83b3e6a6>] ? __audit_syscall_exit+0x1f6/0x2b0
[<ffffffff83c53e3e>] SyS_newstat+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff84193f92>] system_call_fastpath+0x25/0x2a
Code: 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 e6 40 0f 85 d2 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 55 41 54 53 48 8b 47 30 48 89 fb 48 85 c0 0f 84 b1 00 00 00 <4c> 8b a0 40 02 00 00 48 c7 c7 00 71 6b 84 e8 e6 d2 4a 00 41 8b