The attached patch addresses the problem with getting the audit daemon

shutdown credential information. It creates a new message type 
AUDIT_TERM_INFO, which is used by the audit daemon to query who issued the 
shutdown. 

It requires the placement of a hook function that gathers the information. The 
hook is after the DAC & MAC checks and before the function returns. Racing 
threads could overwrite the uid & pid - but they would have to be root and 
have policy that allows signalling the audit daemon. That should be a 
manageable risk.

The userspace component will be released later in audit 0.7.2. When it 
receives the TERM signal, it queries the kernel for shutdown information. 
When it receives it, it writes the message and exits. The message looks 
like this:

type=DAEMON msg=auditd(1114551182.000) auditd normal halt, sending pid=2650 
uid=525, auditd pid=1685
Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

include/linux/audit.h

@@ -28,14 +28,16 @@
 #include <linux/elf.h>
 
 /* Request and reply types */
-#define AUDIT_GET      1000	/* Get status */
-#define AUDIT_SET      1001	/* Set status (enable/disable/auditd) */
-#define AUDIT_LIST     1002	/* List filtering rules */
-#define AUDIT_ADD      1003	/* Add filtering rule */
-#define AUDIT_DEL      1004	/* Delete filtering rule */
-#define AUDIT_USER     1005	/* Send a message from user-space */
-#define AUDIT_LOGIN    1006     /* Define the login id and informaiton */
-#define AUDIT_KERNEL   2000	/* Asynchronous audit record. NOT A REQUEST. */
+#define AUDIT_GET		1000	/* Get status */
+#define AUDIT_SET		1001	/* Set status (enable/disable/auditd) */
+#define AUDIT_LIST		1002	/* List filtering rules */
+#define AUDIT_ADD		1003	/* Add filtering rule */
+#define AUDIT_DEL		1004	/* Delete filtering rule */
+#define AUDIT_USER		1005	/* Send a message from user-space */
+#define AUDIT_LOGIN		1006	/* Define the login id and information */
+#define AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO	1010	/* Get information about sender of signal*/
+
+#define AUDIT_KERNEL		2000	/* Asynchronous audit record. NOT A REQUEST. */
 
 /* Rule flags */
 #define AUDIT_PER_TASK 0x01	/* Apply rule at task creation (not syscall) */
@@ -161,6 +163,11 @@ struct audit_rule {		/* for AUDIT_LIST, AUDIT_ADD, and AUDIT_DEL */
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
+struct audit_sig_info {
+	uid_t		uid;
+	pid_t		pid;
+};
+
 struct audit_buffer;
 struct audit_context;
 struct inode;
@@ -190,6 +197,7 @@ extern void audit_get_stamp(struct audit_context *ctx,
 extern int  audit_set_loginuid(struct task_struct *task, uid_t loginuid);
 extern uid_t audit_get_loginuid(struct audit_context *ctx);
 extern int audit_ipc_perms(unsigned long qbytes, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, mode_t mode);
+extern void audit_signal_info(int sig, struct task_struct *t);
 #else
 #define audit_alloc(t) ({ 0; })
 #define audit_free(t) do { ; } while (0)
@@ -200,6 +208,7 @@ extern int audit_ipc_perms(unsigned long qbytes, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, mode_t mo
 #define audit_inode(n,i) do { ; } while (0)
 #define audit_get_loginuid(c) ({ -1; })
 #define audit_ipc_perms(q,u,g,m) ({ 0; })
+#define audit_signal_info(s,t) do { ; } while (0)
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUDIT

kernel/audit.c

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static int	audit_failure = AUDIT_FAIL_PRINTK;
 
 /* If audit records are to be written to the netlink socket, audit_pid
  * contains the (non-zero) pid. */
-static int	audit_pid;
+int		audit_pid;
 
 /* If audit_limit is non-zero, limit the rate of sending audit records
  * to that number per second.  This prevents DoS attacks, but results in
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ static int	audit_rate_limit;
 static int	audit_backlog_limit = 64;
 static atomic_t	audit_backlog	    = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
+/* The identity of the user shutting down the audit system. */
+uid_t		audit_sig_uid = -1;
+pid_t		audit_sig_pid = -1;
+
 /* Records can be lost in several ways:
    0) [suppressed in audit_alloc]
    1) out of memory in audit_log_start [kmalloc of struct audit_buffer]
@@ -321,6 +325,7 @@ static int audit_netlink_ok(kernel_cap_t eff_cap, u16 msg_type)
 	case AUDIT_SET:
 	case AUDIT_ADD:
 	case AUDIT_DEL:
+	case AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO:
 		if (!cap_raised(eff_cap, CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL))
 			err = -EPERM;
 		break;
@@ -344,6 +349,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 	struct audit_buffer	*ab;
 	u16			msg_type = nlh->nlmsg_type;
 	uid_t			loginuid; /* loginuid of sender */
+	struct audit_sig_info   sig_data;
 
 	err = audit_netlink_ok(NETLINK_CB(skb).eff_cap, msg_type);
 	if (err)
@@ -419,6 +425,12 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 #endif
 		break;
+	case AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO:
+		sig_data.uid = audit_sig_uid;
+		sig_data.pid = audit_sig_pid;
+		audit_send_reply(NETLINK_CB(skb).pid, seq, AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO, 
+				0, 0, &sig_data, sizeof(sig_data));
+		break;
 	default:
 		err = -EINVAL;
 		break;

kernel/auditsc.c

@@ -1056,3 +1056,22 @@ int audit_ipc_perms(unsigned long qbytes, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, mode_t mode)
 	context->aux = (void *)ax;
 	return 0;
 }
+
+void audit_signal_info(int sig, struct task_struct *t)
+{
+	extern pid_t audit_sig_pid;
+	extern uid_t audit_sig_uid;
+	extern int audit_pid;
+
+	if (unlikely(audit_pid && t->pid == audit_pid)) {
+		if (sig == SIGTERM || sig == SIGHUP) {
+			struct audit_context *ctx = current->audit_context;
+			audit_sig_pid = current->pid;
+			if (ctx)
+				audit_sig_uid = ctx->loginuid;
+			else
+				audit_sig_uid = current->uid;
+		}
+	}
+}
+

kernel/signal.c

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/ptrace.h>
 #include <linux/posix-timers.h>
 #include <linux/signal.h>
+#include <linux/audit.h>
 #include <asm/param.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -658,7 +659,11 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig, struct siginfo *info,
 	    && (current->uid ^ t->suid) && (current->uid ^ t->uid)
 	    && !capable(CAP_KILL))
 		return error;
-	return security_task_kill(t, info, sig);
+
+	error = security_task_kill(t, info, sig);
+	if (!error)
+		audit_signal_info(sig, t); /* Let audit system see the signal */
+	return error;
 }
 
 /* forward decl */

security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c

@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ static struct nlmsg_perm nlmsg_audit_perms[] =
 	{ AUDIT_ADD,		NETLINK_AUDIT_SOCKET__NLMSG_WRITE    },
 	{ AUDIT_DEL,		NETLINK_AUDIT_SOCKET__NLMSG_WRITE    },
 	{ AUDIT_USER,		NETLINK_AUDIT_SOCKET__NLMSG_RELAY    },
+	{ AUDIT_SIGNAL_INFO,	NETLINK_AUDIT_SOCKET__NLMSG_READ     },
 };