Description of problem:

CIS level 2 hardening requires having "admin_space_left_action = halt" in the configuration.
If for some reason the space gets low on /var/log/audit, it becomes impossible to boot the system, since it goes down immediately during the boot.

Checking the console output, nowhere we can see an explicit message stating auditd is halting the system.
Only a message is recorded in the journal, assuming the journal is persistent, which is far from being the usual case:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
May 17 08:58:23 vm-audit9 auditd[682]: Audit daemon is low on disk space for logging
May 17 08:58:23 vm-audit9 auditd[682]: The audit daemon is now halting the system
May 17 08:58:23 vm-audit9 auditd[682]: No plugins found, not dispatching events
May 17 08:58:23 vm-audit9 systemd[1]: Started RPC Bind.
May 17 08:58:23 vm-audit9 auditd[682]: Init complete, auditd 3.0.7 listening for events (startup state enable)
:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

But definitely this message is not visible to admins on the console:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
Mounting /var/log/audit...
[ 3.249105] XFS (vdb): Mounting V5 Filesystem
[ 3.274115] XFS (vdb): Ending clean mount
[ OK ] Mounted /var/log/audit.
[ OK ] Reached target Local File Systems.
Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
:
[ OK ] Removed slice Slice /system/modprobe.
[ OK ] Removed slice Slice /system/systemd-hibernate-resume.
[ OK ] Stopped target RPC Port Mapper.
[ OK ] Closed LVM2 poll daemon socket.
[ OK ] Closed Process Core Dump Socket.
[ OK ] Started /usr/sbin/lvm vgch…y --autoactivation event rhel.
Stopping Load/Save Random Seed...
[ OK ] Removed slice Slice /system/getty.
[ OK ] Removed slice Slice /system/serial-getty.
[ OK ] Removed slice Slice /system/sshd-keygen.
[ OK ] Stopped Generate network units from Kernel command line.
[ OK ] Stopped target Path Units.
[ OK ] Stopped target Slice Units.
:
[ OK ] Stopped target Local File Systems.
Unmounting /boot...
Unmounting /run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service...
Unmounting /run/credential…-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service...
[ 3.471501] XFS (vda1): Unmounting Filesystem
Unmounting /var/log/audit...
:
[ 3.641752] reboot: Power down
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

All this makes it really hard to troubleshoot, and usually requires Red Hat Support to enter the game, and them to struggle a lot.

We need to highlight the operation on the console and probably log the message in the journal as "CRIT" as well.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

All audit releases

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure auditd to halt the system

1. sed -i "s/admin_space_left_action = .*/admin_space_left_action = halt/" /etc/audit/auditd.conf

2. Set up a dedicated mount for /var/log/audit (1GB)

1. mkfs.xfs /dev/vdb
2. echo "/dev/vdb /var/log/audit xfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
3. service auditd stop
4. systemctl daemon-reload
5. mount /var/log/audit
6. restorecon -Frv /var/log/audit
7. service auditd start

3. Fill the mount point with wreck

1. dd if=/dev/random of=/var/log/audit/filler bs=1M count=970

4. Reboot

Actual results:

System goes down during boot

Expected results:

System goes down after printing a large visible red message on the console