My perspective suggests that this bug might have came from upsteam.
I'm running DEBIAN 9 in VMware Workstation 12.5.9 build-7535481 and having this exact same issue.
AFFECTED = Linux 4.9.0-8-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u4 (2018-08-21) i686 GNU/Linux
NOT affected = Linux 4.9.0-7-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u2 (2018-08-13) i686 GNU/Linux
My perspective suggests that this bug might have came from upsteam.
I'm running DEBIAN 9 in VMware Workstation 12.5.9 build-7535481 and having this exact same issue.
AFFECTED = Linux 4.9.0-8-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u4 (2018-08-21) i686 GNU/Linux
NOT affected = Linux 4.9.0-7-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u2 (2018-08-13) i686 GNU/Linux