Setting CALayer transform property causes a crash - ios

Question

I am building an interactive rotating disc control. When the user drags the view, I apply the rotation transform for the view. Like this:
circleView.layer.transform = CATransform3DMakeRotation(angle, 0, 0, 1)
For some reason, this line of code causes the app to crash. The crash is not happening on the first hit of this line, but after a
few seconds of consecutive rotation. If I comment this line out, the crash is not occurring.
To make things worse, when the app crashes xcode doesn't show any error or stacktrace but says "connection to device is lost".
This happening only on a device. On the simulator all goes fine.
In the crash logs of the device, at the time of the crash I see no crashes of my apps but there is a crash of processes DTServiceHub
Incident Identifier: 02336F7A-CAB3-4B13-9509-65EA61813529
CrashReporter Key: e16756d8ab2514bab0584705f4151434dbed594f
Hardware Model: iPad3,4
Process: DTServiceHub [768]
Path: /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DVTInstrumentsFoundation.framework/DTServiceHub
Identifier: DTServiceHub
Version: ???
Code Type: ARM (Native)
Role: Unspecified
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Coalition: <none> [352]
Date/Time: 2018-10-02 18:26:03.0352 +0300
Launch Time: 2018-10-02 18:25:45.0000 +0300
OS Version: iPhone OS 10.3.3 (14G60)
Report Version: 104
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0bd5f30c
Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [0]
hread 6 name: Dispatch queue: NStatManager queue
Thread 6 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x1d404dc6 objc_msgSend + 6
1 CoreFoundation 0x1e086210 -[__NSDictionaryM objectForKey:] + 128
2 IDEDebugGaugeDataProviders 0x00439278 0x430000 + 37496
3 IDEDebugGaugeDataProviders 0x004382a8 0x430000 + 33448
4 NetworkStatistics 0x240ab374 -[NWStatisticsDelegateBlockWrapper sourceDidReceiveCounts:] + 160
5 NetworkStatistics 0x240a548c __59-[NWStatisticsManager dispatchDidReceiveCounts:fromUpdate:]_block_invoke + 110
6 libdispatch.dylib 0x1d83d796 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 10
7 libdispatch.dylib 0x1d84a59c _dispatch_queue_serial_drain + 854
8 libdispatch.dylib 0x1d840b70 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 886
9 libdispatch.dylib 0x1d84c1b4 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 326
10 libdispatch.dylib 0x1d84c00e _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 106
11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x1d9f287c _pthread_wqthread + 1040
12 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x1d9f245c start_wqthread + 8
Any ideas?