VERSIONS...
GO: 1.6.3
PF RING: pfring-6.5.0-931.x86_64 (installed from RPM)
Beats version: 1.3.0 (2df1088)
OS: RedHat Entreprise 6.5
UNAME: Linux XXXXXXX 2.6.32-642.4.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 15 02:06:41 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

NOTE: We also see this panic in beats v1.3.1

[root] ./packetbeat -c /etc/packetbeat/packetbeat.yml.rpmsave -e -d "*"
2016/10/18 14:27:33.083775 beat.go:156: DBG Initializing output plugins
2016/10/18 14:27:33.083822 geolite.go:24: INFO GeoIP disabled: No paths were set under output.geoip.paths
2016/10/18 14:27:33.083944 client.go:297: DBG ES Ping(url=http://echocollector-stage.kroger.com:8101/api/beats, timeout=1m30s)
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090487 client.go:306: DBG Ping status code: 200
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090530 outputs.go:126: INFO Activated elasticsearch as output plugin.
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090551 publish.go:232: DBG Create output worker
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090611 publish.go:274: DBG No output is defined to store the topology. The server fields might not be filled.
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090656 publish.go:288: INFO Publisher name: u060ecsa81
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090879 async.go:78: INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090891 async.go:84: INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 100
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090902 async.go:92: DBG create bulk processing worker (interval=1s, bulk size=100)
2016/10/18 14:27:33.090941 beat.go:168: INFO Init Beat: packetbeat; Version: 1.3.0
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091311 procs.go:88: INFO Process matching enabled
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091473 packetbeat.go:166: DBG Initializing protocol plugins
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091514 mongodb.go:73: DBG Init a MongoDB protocol parser
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091548 memcache.go:105: DBG init memcache plugin
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091562 memcache.go:158: DBG maxValues = 0
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091569 memcache.go:159: DBG maxBytesPerValue = 2147483647
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091707 icmp.go:69: DBG Local IP addresses: [127.0.0.1 10.254.227.110 ::1 fe80::250:56ff:feb6:1e6c]
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091774 tcp.go:293: DBG tcp%!(EXTRA string=Port map: %v, map[uint16]protos.Protocol=map[80:http])
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091788 udp.go:93: DBG Port map: map[]
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091796 packetbeat.go:212: DBG Initializing sniffer
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091818 sniffer.go:251: DBG BPF filter: tcp port 80
2016/10/18 14:27:33.091830 sniffer.go:130: DBG Sniffer type: pf_ring device: eth0
2016/10/18 14:27:33.092109 procs.go:147: DBG In RefreshPids
2016/10/18 14:27:33.092132 procs.go:147: DBG In RefreshPids
2016/10/18 14:27:33.092148 procs.go:147: DBG In RefreshPids
2016/10/18 14:27:33.175105 decoder.go:63: DBG Layer type: Ethernet
2016/10/18 14:27:33.175290 beat.go:194: INFO packetbeat sucessfully setup. Start running.
2016/10/18 14:27:33.175306 packetbeat.go:244: DBG Waiting for the sniffer to finish
panic: runtime error: cgo argument has Go pointer to Go pointer

goroutine 23 [running]:
panic(0xa111a0, 0xc82045cc20)
/usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:481 +0x3e6
github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/tsg/gopacket/pfring.(_Ring).ReadPacketDataTo(0xc82121e000, 0xc82122e000, 0xffff, 0xffff, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
/home/df28093/go_workspace/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/tsg/gopacket/pfring/pfring.go:116 +0x210
github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/tsg/gopacket/pfring.(_Ring).ReadPacketData(0xc82121e000, 0xc82122e000, 0xffff, 0xffff, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
/home/df28093/go_workspace/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/tsg/gopacket/pfring/pfring.go:135 +0xcb
github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/sniffer.(_PfringHandle).ReadPacketData(0xc820026100, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, ...)
/home/df28093/go_workspace/src/github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/sniffer/pfring.go:37 +0x7a
github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/sniffer.(_SnifferSetup).Run(0xc820065040, 0x0, 0x0)
/home/df28093/go_workspace/src/github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/sniffer/sniffer.go:294 +0x1e9
github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/beat.(_Packetbeat).Run.func1(0xc820090480)
/home/df28093/go_workspace/src/github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/beat/packetbeat.go:232 +0x37
created by github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/beat.(_Packetbeat).Run
/home/df28093/go_workspace/src/github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/beat/packetbeat.go:238 +0x45