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fix(talos): stop the audit flood by selecting AppArmor correctly - #4197

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Why

The platform activates the wrong host security module, flooding its audit log and causing recurring Coroot alerts. The volume also causes audit records to be lost.

What

Restore the intended host security protections using the released tooling needed to update running nodes. Preserve audit logging and alert checks; completion requires healthy production workloads and confirmation that the live audit flood has stopped.

Part of #4194

👉 After merge/promotion: verify the running image and host protection, then take separated live audit-log samples before closing the issue.

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Please review commit 0f531cb, including both exclusive-LSM selection and audit-context hook precedence. This remains draft until the same-version boot-image rollout prerequisite is resolved; passing source tests is not production recovery.

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📚 Learning: 2026-08-10T13:01:12.782Z
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scripts/reconcile-talos-kernel-args/main.go (1)

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📝 Walkthrough

The cluster configuration and factory schematic add apparmor=1 and place AppArmor before SELinux and BPF in the LSM list. The guard checks both inputs, and a regression test checks six unsafe mutations against each input. CI runs the regression test. The change also adds KSail release audit records and tests, updates KSail pins, removes three indirect test-module dependencies, and updates the runtime-security overview.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 19cdb

No actionable merge-blocking issue is established. Normal deployment validation still needs to confirm the installed binary and live audit-log behavior.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 911cc

The configuration consistently selects the intended AppArmor protection and retains the configured security-module set. However, existing nodes need a changed boot image at the same Talos version, and the available evidence does not establish that rollout capability or confirm effective confinement and audit behavior after boot. No introduced vulnerability was verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The independently affected security scope is each host booting the changed image and the workloads relying on that host's confinement and auditing. Node-reported image convergence bounds deployment verification, but does not establish tenant-specific policy coverage or effective runtime enforcement.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The changed validation path treats supplied configuration as parsed data. The sensitive outcome is subsequently selected by host boot arguments through the existing image and deployment authority. Static argument checks and image-identity checks constrain that flow, but are distinct from evidence of running-kernel enforcement.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The deployment accounts for delayed API disruption after successful or failed update attempts and reasserts the existing rollout gate during cleanup. These controls support failure containment, but do not prove interrupted image-upgrade recovery or restoration of the prior security configuration.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before treating the fix as deployed, demonstrate same-version schematic replacement and reboot behavior, including partial rollout, resumption, concurrent-operation ownership, and rollback to the prior image. Preserve the existing rollout gate rather than bypassing its separate safety purpose.
  • proposed — Confirm the pinned kernel's selection and audit-hook semantics on booted nodes, including effective command-line arguments, active LSMs, loaded AppArmor enforcement, and audit-subject context. Check audit loss and alert behavior before declaring the security outcome restored.
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Failed Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 20.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 6 files. (11 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check Passed The description explains the audit flood, AppArmor selection, required tooling, and production verification. It is directly related to the changeset.
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: selecting AppArmor correctly in Talos to stop the audit flood.
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Docstring coverage is 20.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 20 functions across 6 files. (11 skipped: 11 unsupported.)

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Please review exact head 0f531cb. CodeRabbit could not run because its included review quota is exhausted. Check exclusive-LSM selection, audit-hook precedence and regression coverage. The known same-version deployment limitation remains an explicit draft blocker.

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Validation at 0f531cbfde845fbdc6e4a20452ba5d7bd32d90ee:

  • The LSM regression failed before the configuration change and passes afterwards. Separate negative fixtures reject SELinux-first ordering, BPF-before-AppArmor ordering, and a missing hardening module.
  • ShellCheck, the focused Talos scripts, and the full Go suite pass. The first sandboxed run could not open test listeners or /dev/stdout; the same suite passed with those local test permissions available.
  • The CI render-and-validate procedure passes for production/local control-plane/worker configurations with Talos 1.13.10.
  • Image Factory accepted the corrected schematic and its Talos 1.13.10 image is available. This is image-publication evidence, not deployment evidence.
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The deployment blocker is now tracked in devantler-tech/ksail#7299. Keep this PR draft until the normal deployment path can reconcile changed boot images at the same Talos version. Production nodes have not been rolled by this PR, and the Coroot warnings are not yet claimed resolved.

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In `@scripts/tests/test-talos-apparmor-lsm.sh`:
- Line 36: Update check_args to reject the exact kernel argument apparmor=0, and
add negative coverage verifying rejection in both
.machine.install.extraKernelArgs and .customization.extraKernelArgs.

In `@talos/cluster/enable-apparmor.yaml`:
- Line 9: Add the apparmor=1 kernel argument alongside the existing lsm argument
in both kernel-argument sources: the Talos cluster configuration and the factory
schematic. Preserve the existing LSM list.

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Comment thread talos/cluster/enable-apparmor.yaml Resolved
apparmor=0 disables AppArmor whatever lsm= selects, so the LSM contract
could pass on a config that leaves AppArmor off. Both kernel-argument
sources now carry apparmor=1, and the contract requires exactly that one
apparmor= argument.

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The reviewed source passed CI, but the merge-group deployment failed. The public Image Factory precheck registered the intended schematic successfully; KSail's registration request then hit its context deadline before image convergence. That is not a successful rollout, and increasing retries did not resolve the hosted-runner failure.

I returned this PR to draft and opened the bounded transport investigation in devantler-tech/ksail#7707, linked as a native blocker of #4194. There will be no blind requeue or certificate-verification bypass.

The failed deployment and automatic restore have both completed. The restore passed its declared-image readback, node readiness/settings checks, published-source reconciliation, and two separated orphan checks for resources touched by this attempt. Historical retained objects are not erased or counted as new failures. The init-image acceptance remains unfulfilled.

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The transport dependency is delivered: KSail#7708 merged at f7e281435adcac8cea60bcde334c7c12197ccdea, and KSail#7707 closed. Its current-head acceptance receipt records complete CI, substantive review and repeated registrations through the actual repaired client, with encrypted-connection verification and identity checks preserved.

The release producer completed and created v7.202.58 from that merge. Binary publication run 38325684266 is queued; the usable release assets have not yet been observed. The previously published v7.202.57 does not contain this repair and must not be adopted as its substitute.

Consumer preparation is validated in an isolated worktree integrated with current platform main: the full root-module test suite, LSM counterfactuals, pinned Talos offline rendering and actual OpenBao chart/API transition test pass. The merged producer's six fold inputs still match the existing audited set; no audit allow-list expansion is needed.

Resume condition: verify successful publication, the actual release/tag/asset digest and binary identity, then adopt all five governed pins and secure new consumer-head CI and review before normal merge-queue delivery. No consumer update has been pushed yet. Production image identity, workload health and separated live audit-log clearance remain required on #4194; this PR stays draft until its new consumer head is genuinely ready.

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Reviewed the additional automated observations in the current-head review, rather than relying on its zero-actionable-comments headline alone.

  • The G304 observation at scripts/reconcile-talos-kernel-args/main_test.go:89 concerns a test-only reader walking the repository's two fixed workflow directories. Its caller supplies the repository root or a test-owned temporary fixture. It is not a production file-input surface, and the test does not publish the file contents. This is a variable-path scanner observation, not an established file-inclusion vulnerability.
  • The aggregate docstring warning names no missing public contract or incorrect interface. The changed operational contract and its evidence boundaries are documented in the reconciler README and runtime-security guide. It does not establish an additional correctness defect; no documentation check, security scan, or deployment gate has been disabled or lowered.

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The production rollout remains an acceptance gate, not a completed result: the merge-group deployment must converge on the corrected image, followed by fresh workload-health and separated live audit-log readbacks. Issue #4194 stays open until that outcome is verified.

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#4197 merged at 999728cfd255987d29d5a608c6e8bf5c3421fa5b after the reviewed source head 19cdb2787bacb1699b336ed865fa259912477be8 passed queue CI.

Production deployment was accepted before merge. Its strict node readback passed: every node runs the intended Talos release and corrected schematic, Ready and schedulable. A separate OIDC-only readback also passed, and all three root Flux layers are unsuspended and Ready at the accepted artifact revision.

This establishes merge and boot-image delivery, not a fully clean Coroot project. Rollout-era alerts and replication risks still require separated live readbacks and aging evidence; no monitoring check or historical record was weakened to clear them. The retained portal cleanup remains separate work in #4814 / #4266.

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