auditd reports "Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available)" and/or system reboots on its own

Issue

• auditd reports Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available) repeatedly after auditd log rotation or when applying a large yum update

  Dec 29 11:10:33 myrhel8 auditd[719779]: Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available)
  Dec 29 11:10:34 myrhel8 auditd[719779]: Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available)
  Dec 29 11:10:34 myrhel8 auditd[719779]: Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available)
  Dec 29 11:10:35 myrhel8 auditd[719779]: Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available)
  Dec 29 11:10:40 myrhel8 auditd[719779]: Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available)
  Dec 29 11:10:40 myrhel8 auditd[719779]: Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available)
  Dec 29 11:10:40 myrhel8 auditd[719779]: Error receiving audit netlink packet (No buffer space available)
  

  But NO backlog limit exceeded messages like this:

  kernel: audit: audit_backlog=65537 > audit_backlog_limit=65536
  kernel: audit: audit_lost=126533574 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=65536
  

  (This case is described in 'kernel: audit: backlog limit exceeded' messages in /var/log/messages)

• System automatically panics when auditd is configured with -f 2 parameter in its rules

  # grep -- "-f 2" /etc/audit/audit.rules 
  -f 2
  

• No third party kernel module is installed