System crashed with the message "Kernel panic - not syncing: audit: backlog limit exceeded"

Issue

• System crashed with the following call trace

Backtrace
     KERNEL: vmlinux
   DUMPFILE: vmcore  [PARTIAL DUMP]
       CPUS: 1
       DATE: Mon Apr  9 12:58:07 2012
     UPTIME: 1 days, 08:31:04
LOAD AVERAGE: 1.55, 1.63, 0.92
      TASKS: 218
   NODENAME: xxxxxxxxxx
    RELEASE: 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5
    VERSION: #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 13:34:58 EST 2011
    MACHINE: i686  (2800 Mhz)
     MEMORY: 4 GB
      PANIC: "Kernel panic - not syncing: audit: backlog limit exceeded"
PID: 17302  TASK: ed52aaa0  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "find"
#0 [f0732e60] crash_kexec at c04453eb
#1 [f0732ea4] panic at c0425473
#2 [f0732ec0] audit_panic at c04474cb
#3 [f0732ed0] audit_log_start at c0447c77
#4 [f0732f18] audit_log_exit at c044c7f1
#5 [f0732fb8] system_call at c040502d
   EAX: fffffffe  EBX: bfe97e0e  ECX: 09f30680  EDX: bfe98660 
   DS:  007b      ESI: bfe99d22  ES:  007b      EDI: 00264ff4
   SS:  007b      ESP: bfe97ce0  EBP: bfe97e68
   CS:  0073      EIP: 00499402  ERR: 0000000b  EFLAGS: 00200212 

audit: audit_backlog=16385 > audit_backlog_limit=16384
audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=16384
Kernel panic - not syncing: audit: backlog limit exceeded