> when this happened, and I was not able to log in onto any console or
> terminal afterwards (probably because tty_open failed very miserably
> on the way?)

Its a deliberate debugging trap.

> #if DEBUG
>         if (cachep->flags & SLAB_POISON)
>                 if (kmem_check_poison_obj(cachep, objp))
>                         BUG();
>                       ^^^^^^ This one is triggered

Someone freed memory and then scribbled on it. 

The first thing useful here is to know which drivers you were using shortly
before the oops
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