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Qualification-environment clarification: The validation baseline is the AWS-published default AL2023 x86_64 EC2 AMIs in eu-north-1: 2023.12.20261026.1 / kernel-6.12 (ami-0e8550404ae6ca4c6) and 2023.12.20261102.0 / kernel-6.18 (ami-0516089d963059a51). This supersedes the EKS-environment wording below: customer EKS AMIs and instances are inaccessible, so this is representative public-AMI qualification, not customer EKS configuration parity. All functional and safety requirements remain unchanged; the 14-OS expansion remains deferred to IG #27. Selecting these environments does not establish readiness, support, or completion of qualification.
The first PoC targets AL2023 amd64 EKS on both deployed kernel/image pairs:
Kernel
AL2023 image
6.12.113-138.209.amzn2023
2023.12.20261026
6.18.56-125.164.amzn2023
2023.12.20261102
These are qualification targets, not current support or admission claims. Current code, dependency pins and CI have not yet qualified this matrix; fresh isolated proof of the exact kernel/configuration/BTF/runtime identities is required on both targets.
The full functional and safety gates remain: all supported predicates and 256 rules, recoverable policy-denial EPERM, prior LSM denial precedence, strictly nonblocking audit, exact scope, last-good reload, bounded TASK/WORK lifecycle, shared-runtime and consumer/exporter qualification, and independent review. There is no reduced-feature tier or new merge-readiness claim.
The former 14-OS stock-kernel expansion is a separate later milestone, tracked in IG issue #27, outside this PoC completion scope. This scope-only update supersedes older target-matrix wording below; historical evidence remains historical, and no source, pin or validation result changes with this description update.
Current integration status — DRAFT, experimental, not merge-ready (2026-11-09)
Published public node-agent head: signed-off native-map isolation-guard repin 86aaf1dd updates only go.mod/go.sum and follows the prior IG repin 3fce34f8 follows signed-off scoped-IG repin 05bdca85, which follows signed-off IG repin 7b7f93d2, which follows signed-off lint remediation 34937a45 follows signed-off module-pin 2214a667 follows signed-off test-only 3c3a75f1, which follows signed-off 18d258f2, which follows signed-off fca10816. The latter migrates trusted image evidence to containerd v2 and preserves explicit policy-origin semantics; nil origin receives the ContainerProfile fallback, while explicit empty remains explicit. Unsupported nonempty native defaultMode and nonnil except are rejected rather than silently weakened. Failed replacement retains healthy last-good protection and reports stale/NotReady.
Immutable dependency pins:github.com/inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget is replaced by the published remote fork github.com/kubescape/inspektor-gadget v0.0.0-20261109144354-d8ff976355c2 (exact VCS SHA d8ff976355c2d1b9cbdc721584185451266710f7); this matches the published IG Dev branch - add required field to the workflow #15 head; github.com/kubescape/storage remains v0.0.388-0.20261105083812-136b4c98606f. No workspace or local-path replacement is used.
Fresh bounded validation at 86aaf1dd: no-workspace, read-only-module sandboxpolicy race tests, relevant vet and static Linux amd64 build pass. A reproducible ordinary-tracer archive built with exact pinned IG source and digest-pinned inputs closes the missing-archive gap: all 18 metadata tests, then all 77 top-level tracer tests, pass with race instrumentation and no skips in isolated root network/mount namespaces. Archive SHA256: 01c061b6833013b85db278fa77e0b8ce533fbe0b1eda1e7cec116a57a83f27c6. Recorded host BPF map/program IDs and shared IG store are unchanged after the tests. Independent review verified this bounded result; it is not the full node-agent root suite, live policy enforcement or Ready.
Separate default-AMI feasibility evidence: isolated standard public AL2023 amd64 EC2 instances booted the exact 6.12/6.18 kernel/BTF identities and passed ten IG observer-only pending-argv cases each, including shebang and page crossing. The reviewed unsigned test module loaded with expected taint and unloaded normally; both instances and created cloud resources were cleaned up. No host protections were changed. This does not qualify the node-agent enforcement path, EKS/customer parity, signed-release deployment or Ready; the saved 6.12 preflight also lacks the actual SecureBoot byte and signature-enforcement value.
Accepted Audit/enforcement contract (not a completion claim): Audit-only policies must be strictly nonblocking even across observation/tracking faults and reload, preserve earlier LSM denials, and never grant uncertain roles. Enforcement-capable policies remain fail-closed and retain healthy last-good protection on rejected replacements. Shared-runtime implementation and live proof of this contract remain open; older best-effort Audit wording is superseded.
Historical bounded local verification: prior head 18d258f2 passed GOWORK=offgo mod verify, go test ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., go test -race ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., and go build ./.... At 3c3a75f1, the test-only IG interface mock compatibility fix passes GOWORK=off go test ./pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1 and repository-wide GOWORK=off go test ./... -run '^$' (compile-only). At 2214a667, GOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonlygo mod verify, go test ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., go test -race ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., and repository-wide go test ./... -run '^$' pass. This is not full-suite or live-runtime qualification.
Focused lint remediation at 34937a45: compatible official golangci-lint v2.15.0 run ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/... reports 0 issues. With GOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly, go test -race -count=1 ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/... and go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/... pass; git diff --check 2214a667... 34937a45... passes. Independent 18-file review approved a bounded Draft push only, with no introduced security/fail-open regression found. These checks do not establish whole-repository CI, live-kernel/containerd runtime readiness, or private-consumer integration.
IG repin validation at 7b7f93d2: with GOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly, go mod verify, go test -race -count=1 ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., repository-wide go test ./... -run '^$', and go build ./... pass; compatible golangci-lint v2.15.0 run ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/... reports 0 issues. This remains compile/focused validation, not full-suite or live-runtime qualification.
Historical IG repin validation at 3fce34f8: with GOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly, go mod verify, go test -race -count=1 ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., and repository-wide go test ./... -run '^$' passed; compatible golangci-lint v2.15.0 run ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/... reported 0 issues. The diff is module-pin-only; no full suite, live kernel, or hosted-CI qualification is claimed.
Open merge gates: the tracer-package archive gap is closed above, but the full node-agent root suite has not been rerun at this head; no whole-repository green is claimed. The previously reported go mod tidy -diff failure on the IG transitive test import go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler/tracer/types remains an unclosed graph-hygiene gate, not a freshly rerun result. Live kernel/containerd 1.7 and 2.x, private downstream OTLP-array serialization, hosted CI/fresh Copilot review, and complete release graph qualification remain pending. IG PR #15 remains a Draft stacked dependency; its dependencies check may fail by design while the stack is unmerged. Do not merge or bypass the stacked dependency guard.
Historical evidence below is preserved for provenance, not recertified: older status, pins, test counts, and live-kernel proof refer to earlier source revisions. The accepted strictly nonblocking Audit contract above supersedes older best-effort wording; its implementation and live qualification remain open. Maintainers own all merges.
Overview
Add opt-in SandboxPolicy execution enforcement to the public node-agent:
Watch SandboxPolicy, ClusterSandboxPolicy and SandboxPolicyClasses, resolve selectors/classes and read-only ContainerProfile imports, and write bounded per-node status.
Wire the persistent full enforce_exec owner: live policy reload without restarting role state, strict runtime bindings, last-good retention, and honest NotReady/protection-unconfirmed reporting.
Export public verdict/enrichment hooks and bounded loss diagnostics for later private OTel integration. This does not implement the private exporter.
Add trusted containerd image/root/namespace admission, exact identity fences, nonpublishing attestation during discovery outages, and safe abort/retirement/cleanup.
Stacked dependency / do not merge yet: depends on kubescape/inspektor-gadget#15 and the SandboxPolicy API in kubescape/storage#428. The exact published IG revision is pinned; the existing merge guard intentionally rejects an unmerged IG dependency. Do not bypass it—merge IG and align the consumer pin first.
Safety and supported environment
Disabled by default. Enabling requires an explicit administrator-trusted image/archive, containerd socket and writable control root. There is no legacy/path-only fallback and no inferred runtime-helper exemption. Unsupported policies or unreliable bindings are refused; healthy last-good enforcement is retained where it can be freshly confirmed.
The experimentally proven matrix is amd64, the documented pinned Linux 7.3 test kernel/BTF, containerd 1.7.30 / runc 1.3.4, and the constrained root, seccomp, capability, mount and device-policy configuration. This is not generic distribution/arm64/production compatibility. Strict runtime helpers can quarantine a binding; new policy revisions do not silently redeem unknown lineage.
No chart version/RBAC changes, parent aggregate status writer, private-agent dependency, or non-exec enforcement are included.
How to test
Standalone validation, without a development workspace:
GOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly go test -race ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/... ./pkg/config ./pkg/utils -count=1
GOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/... ./pkg/config ./pkg/utils
GOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly go test ./cmd -run '^$'
These pass on the latest main base. A CGO-disabled node-agent binary build also passed.
The opt-in privileged fixture is TestFullBackendContainerdKernel; run it only on an explicitly selected disposable supported-kernel machine, following docs/features/sandbox-policy.md and the fixture's provisioning contract. The matching IG owner includes a reproducible Clang 21.1.8/pinned-BTF OCI archive builder.
Isolated real-kernel evidence
Real CRI RunPodSandbox/CreateContainer/StartContainer and the production ORAS archive/native backend path passed:
13 actual target paths and compound exec predicates under default deny;
the full 256-rule boundary, including match bitmap bit 255; safe rejection of 257 rules;
actual enforce/audit/allow verdict delivery, role inheritance and same-owner reload;
containerd stop/start recovery without changing successful UID epochs or losing last-good enforcement;
actual strict CRI-helper refusal, preserved quarantine, zero stranded admissions, and successful withdrawal;
kernel counter snapshots retained after verified detach.
Final combined run: PASS 7.56s; repeat runs: PASS 8.35s / 9.23s / 9.24s. All test VM/key/tag resources were deleted and API absence verified. This fixture does not run a kubelet/API server; controller/watch/status behavior has separate client-backed and cross-layer regression tests.
Review notes
Important regression boundaries include exact PID/mount/cgroup/pod identity reuse, failed retirement, stale withdrawal, configuration/discovery outages, pending-candidate attestation versus publication, superseded uncommitted abort, committed-finalization retry, transport recovery, and explicit kernel/userspace telemetry loss.
The IG pin is v0.0.0-20261027133411-87a796fe9780, which includes IG main through #16 and preserves its ordinary-symbol streaming fix, plus reviewed canonical-prefix and cancellable-attachment fixes. Merge ownership remains with the maintainer; this PR does not merge or override checks in either repository.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added experimental, opt-in sandbox policy enforcement for Kubernetes workloads, supporting audit and enforce modes.
Added per-node policy status and execution authorization events to surface enforcement outcomes.
Policies can import supported execution paths from completed container profiles.
Documentation
Added guidance on prerequisites, configuration limits, supported environments, and verification boundaries.
Important
Enforcement is disabled by default and requires explicit runtime configuration. Unsupported environments or policy configurations may be rejected; protection may be reported as unconfirmed rather than falling back to a legacy backend.
Consumer validation also fixed telemetry shutdown: kernel-counter sampling now honors cancellation while waiting for a busy backend mutex, without detached waiter goroutines. Cancellation/deadline regressions and existing snapshot tests pass under the race detector. This bounds backend-lock waiting, not arbitrary native syscall duration.
The reviewed IG matrix extension preserves the original exact BTF and additionally admits only 759807546ae2feaf616dc65c73167439867bb393dc468a4bd39c0ab1bc267d51, with full isolated upstream predicate/128-path/persistent OCI/actual CRI/hugetlb-exec proof. Provenance and evidence. Private Kubernetes/OTLP proof remains separate and pending.
Internal event naming update (1769ac13)
The public authorization wrapper is now sandboxpolicy.ExecVerdictEvent, constructed by NewExecVerdictEvent, and dispatched under utils.ExecAuthorizationEventType (execAuthorization). It deliberately does not implement the ordinary utils.ExecEvent observation interface. This names the existing exec-specific contract explicitly; the Verdict payload and enforcement behavior are unchanged.
Internal dispatch names are not OTEL wire names. Private #747 maps authorization to the shared exec / R-PROC-1 wire family with explicit authorization phase; this public rename does not alter that wire contract. Source comments and feature documentation describe how to add a second enforcement gadget: use operation-specific facts/events/dispatch and extract only metadata proven common to both, rather than preemptively introducing a generic verdict abstraction.
Focused public sandboxpolicy/utils race tests, vet, cmd compilation and changed-line lint (0 issues) passed. This naming change has not rerun the historical live-kernel proof; its original evidence anchors remain unchanged.
Watch the SandboxPolicy CRDs, resolve selected exec plans and publish them through the full persistent enforce_exec backend. Preserve strict runtime identity, successful role epochs, healthy last-good enforcement and explicit unsupported/uncertain status.
Add public verdict hooks, trusted containerd admission, bounded telemetry, lifecycle regressions and disposable real-kernel fixtures. Pin the published IG implementation; the existing unmerged-dependency guard remains in force. Private OTel integration and chart changes are out of scope.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
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This pull request adds opt-in sandbox-policy enforcement. It includes policy compilation and reconciliation, Kubernetes-to-runtime binding discovery, runtime and image evidence checks, enforcement backends, node status reporting, and verdict events. Configuration defaults to disabled.
Changes: Sandbox policy enforcement
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Summary
Configuration, contracts, and compilation pkg/config/*, pkg/sandboxpolicy/types.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/compiler.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/integration/sources.go, go.mod, pkg/utils/events.go
Adds sandbox-policy configuration and public contracts. The compiler validates policies, resolves supported exec rules, expands path classes, and produces a revision. The profile resolver imports supported exec paths from complete profiles.
Binding discovery and reconciliation pkg/sandboxpolicy/controller.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/integration/bindings.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/status.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/integration/readiness.go
Adds Kubernetes-to-runtime binding snapshots and controller reconciliation. Failed snapshots retain prior authoritative state. Status reports track readiness, cleanup, and protection uncertainty.
Trusted runtime and image evidence pkg/sandboxpolicy/igbackend/identity_linux.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/igbackend/imageevidence.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/igbackend/imageindex.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/igbackend/fulllease_linux.go
Adds Linux identity leases and containerd evidence checks for workload identity, image layers, mounts, and host namespaces. The implementation bounds and rechecks evidence before accepting a full binding lease.
Adds legacy and full enforcement backends, native runtime adapters, per-binding ownership, replacement and withdrawal handling, health attestation, cleanup retries, and kernel event statistics.
Adds full-policy compilation, generation-specific decoders, and verdict validation and attribution. Tests and a C fixture cover the opt-in kernel enforcement flow.
Service startup, readiness, and verdict export pkg/sandboxpolicy/exporter.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/integration/service.go, cmd/main.go, docs/features/sandbox-policy.md, pkg/sandboxpolicy/igbackend/README.md
Adds service startup and shutdown wiring, refresh handling, readiness barriers for changing inputs, and bounded best-effort verdict delivery. Documentation describes configuration, behavior, and verification boundaries.
The dependency merge gate remains unsatisfied. Resolve it before merging, and address the remaining exporter, documentation, and device-admission risks.
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Review comments at @docs/features/sandbox-policy.md:
- Around line 22-24: Update the setup section’s dependency pin status to say it
pins expanded IG revision 6b8b24afaf6f2fd9eeb1bcaa9f7a52f4f11e9ea1 from IG PR
#15, and clarify that only re-pinning to the merged IG main revision remains
outstanding. Keep the surrounding mutator-image statement unchanged.
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- Line 483: Update the Inspektor Gadget replacement in go.mod to a commit that
is an ancestor of the fork’s main branch, and verify the storage pseudo-version
likewise points to a merged main-branch commit before merge.
Review comments at @pkg/config/config.go:
- Around line 227-229: Add empty-string defaults for
sandboxPolicyContainerdSocket and sandboxPolicyControlRoot alongside the
existing sandboxPolicy defaults in the Viper setup, so AutomaticEnv recognizes
environment overrides for both fields.
Review comments at @pkg/sandboxpolicy/exporter.go:
- Around line 247-251: Add a bounded per-event timeout to the callback wait in
deliver, so it can finish if the enricher never invokes the callback. On
timeout, use the existing once guard to record the enrichment error and dropped
event exactly once, and close done without changing the existing completion or
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Review comments at @pkg/sandboxpolicy/igbackend/imageevidence.go:
- Around line 734-740: Update the cgroup device-rule validation in
validateImageSpec to reject allow rules without both an exact Major and Minor,
including wildcard character-device rules. Preserve the existing rejection of
block, unspecified, and all-device types.
Review comments at @pkg/sandboxpolicy/integration/service.go:
- Around line 192-202: Reduce the load generated by the per-node loop in the
service run method: replace the 5-second fixed refresh interval with a slower
configurable interval, use shared informers for pod and namespace data in
snapshotBindings, and update DynamicStatusWriter.WriteStatus to skip unchanged
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Re-pin the Inspektor Gadget replace to a commit on the fork's main branch before merge.
The Inspektor Gadget Pin Check job fails on this line. Commit 6b8b24afaf6f is not an ancestor of github.com/kubescape/inspektor-gadget:main, and the compare status is diverged. The PR description says this guard must not be bypassed. This pin depends on the unmerged IG PR.
After the IG PR merges, update the pin to the merged main commit. Check the github.com/kubescape/storage pseudo-version on line 39 the same way. It points at the unmerged SandboxPolicy API PR.
[error] 483-483: The make check-ig-pin step failed: the pinned Inspektor Gadget commit 6b8b24afaf6f is not an ancestor of github.com/kubescape/inspektor-gadget:main (compare status: diverged). Re-pin the replace directive to a commit on the repository's main branch.
[error] 483-483: The make check-ig-pin check failed: pinned commit 6b8b24afaf6f is not an ancestor of github.com/kubescape/inspektor-gadget:main (compare status: diverged). Re-pin the replace directive to a commit on the main branch.
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Update the Inspektor Gadget replacement in go.mod to a commit that is an
ancestor of the fork’s main branch, and verify the storage pseudo-version
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Bound the wait for the enrichment callback.
deliver waits only for done or ctx.Done(). ctx is the exporter Run context. If a TaskBasedEnricher accepts a task and never calls callback (for example, it drops the task under load), Run blocks for the process lifetime. The queue then fills, and ReportVerdict drops all later telemetry with ErrVerdictQueueFull. The doc comment says receivers must return promptly, but here the enricher returns promptly and the callback never arrives.
cmd/main.go currently passes no Enricher, so production does not reach this path. ExporterOptions.Enricher and ServiceOptions.Enricher are public hooks.
Add a bounded per-event timeout. The existing once guard keeps loss counted once.
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Review comment at @pkg/sandboxpolicy/exporter.go around lines 247 - 251:
Add a bounded per-event timeout to the callback wait in deliver, so it can
finish if the enricher never invokes the callback. On timeout, use the existing
once guard to record the enrichment error and dropped event exactly once, and
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The loop rejects allow rules only when Type is b, empty, or a. A rule such as {Allow: true, Type: "c", Access: "rwm"} with Major == nil passes. That rule grants the cgroup access to every character device. validateImageSpec also admits CAP_MKNOD in allowedCaps. A workload with both can therefore create and open an arbitrary character device node in its writable /dev tmpfs. That contradicts the "host/block device exposure is unsupported" admission guarantee. The /dev/shm fallback path already requires the exact baseline deny rule, so the main admission path is the weaker one.
Reject allow rules without an exact major and minor. Alternatively, allow only the same safe character-device set that spec.Linux.Devices accepts.
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Review comment at @pkg/sandboxpolicy/igbackend/imageevidence.go around lines 734
- 740:
Update the cgroup device-rule validation in validateImageSpec to reject allow
rules without both an exact Major and Minor, including wildcard character-device
rules. Preserve the existing rejection of block, unspecified, and all-device
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echo'--- controller.go 655-725 ---'
sed -n '655,725p' pkg/sandboxpolicy/controller.go
echo'--- controller.go 261-300 ---'
sed -n '261,300p' pkg/sandboxpolicy/controller.go
echo'--- controller.go 400-445 ---'
sed -n '400,445p' pkg/sandboxpolicy/controller.go
echo'--- readiness.go 1-60 ---'
sed -n '1,60p' pkg/sandboxpolicy/integration/readiness.go
echo'--- status.go 60-118 ---'
sed -n '60,118p' pkg/sandboxpolicy/status.go
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Limit the per-node refresh loop. It issues uncached list calls and an unconditional status write for each policy.
Each node runs refresh every 5 seconds and after each container event. Each run issues these requests:
Three unpaged List calls for SandboxPolicy, ClusterSandboxPolicy, and SandboxPolicyClasses (Controller.loadConfiguration).
A pod List filtered by spec.nodeName, and an unfiltered namespace List (snapshotBindings).
A Get and an UpdateStatus for every parsed policy (DynamicStatusWriter.WriteStatus). This includes policies that select nothing on the node. report sets LastReported to the current time, so the status content changes on every cycle and the write cannot be skipped as a no-op.
All list calls use an empty ResourceVersion. Kubernetes serves these as consistent reads from etcd, not from the API server watch cache. The fixed list cost therefore scales with node count at 0.2 Hz, plus one refresh per container event. Status writes scale with nodes × policies.
Consider these changes:
Serve pods and namespaces from shared informers.
Skip a status write when the content is unchanged, ignoring LastReported. Write at a slower heartbeat instead.
Lengthen the 5-second interval, or make it configurable.
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202:
Reduce the load generated by the per-node loop in the service run method:
replace the 5-second fixed refresh interval with a slower configurable interval,
use shared informers for pod and namespace data in snapshotBindings, and update
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🔵 Needs a closer look
Privileged enforcement lifecycle changes require human review, with an unresolved environment-configuration defect and upstream merge gates still outstanding.
Adds experimental, opt-in SandboxPolicy execution enforcement to node-agent, separate from existing observation and runtime-detection features. Support is limited to the documented environment, and merging remains gated on upstream dependencies.
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🔵 Needs a closer look
Privileged enforcement requires maintainer review, with unresolved admission and protection-reporting issues and an explicitly merge-gated upstream dependency.
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Address review 5667584645: attest protection after failed withdrawal and use IG cgroup-v2 membership rather than its mount-prefixed path.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
@AlonLiwsky Yes, I agree with this direction. Seccomp is how #1054 currently establishes root/mount-namespace stability, not an intrinsic requirement of the exec engine. Thanks for catching the blanket clone3/EPERM problem.
I would reuse the common root-barrier primitives as a mandatory exec safety capability, independently of whether the privilege gadget is enabled:
Install and attest the required hooks before reporting an exec binding Ready, and retain them through reload/retirement. Missing coverage must refuse activation rather than silently fall back.
Cover the bound tasks and their descendants, preserve earlier LSM denials, and allow ordinary thread creation while rejecting the root/namespace-changing operations. This barrier must remain effective for audit-only exec policies too; it is an infrastructure invariant, not an optional privilege deny rule.
Keep exec's strict binding/lineage contract. We should not implicitly inherit the privilege gadget's runtime-mount-namespace arming/exemption behavior.
There are two admission checks to replace: validateRootSeccomp and the live-process Seccomp: 2 requirement in validateLiveRootBarrier. The pinned root/mount evidence, capability restrictions and runtime-identity checks still need to remain valid.
For validation, I'd include normal glibc clone3 threads, denied root/namespace mutations between exec checks, already-running tasks, reload and failed-hook startup. Removing the seccomp-specific x86/default-ALLOW restrictions makes sense; the exec engine's separate kernel/architecture qualification still applies.
So yes: let's share that barrier without making exec depend on privilege enforcement. This is the intended replacement, not something already wired into #1054.
I lean toward option 2, so each PR reaches main as its own reviewed unit. #1054 currently has conflicts with main, and the seccomp root-barrier replacement is still to come. Happy with option 1 if it is easier for you.
I lean toward option 2, so each PR reaches main as its own reviewed unit. #1054 currently has conflicts with main, and the seccomp root-barrier replacement is still to come. Happy with option 1 if it is easier for you.
Don't merge anything to main until we have decided on the proper IG fork layout.
Controller follow-up in bae9ee5: valid cluster policies now install independently when a namespaced policy is invalid; the invalid policy remains NotReady, and an existing binding reports only its actually installed last-good revision. Candidate plans still use one atomic backend Replace; over-limit paths re-attest old protection and class errors are isolated only where the pinned validator safely attributes an invalid name. Targeted sandboxpolicy package, integration, igbackend, race, and vet checks passed locally. This is not merge-ready: current-main conflicts (go.mod, go.sum, pkg/utils/events.go) still need reconciliation, and the remaining merged #295 semantics and dependency/pin work are pending.
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kubescape#1054 now keeps class errors per class name, and a policy fails only on
the errors of the shared classes its exec rules use. Pod plans follow the
same rule, so a class error in an unrelated policy no longer blocks a
pod binding, and the controller builds again with the new base.
Signed-off-by: Alon Liwsky <40373481+AlonLiwsky@users.noreply.github.com>
The kubescape#1054 base moved to storage v0.0.388: PrivilegeTarget has no path,
fromImage or fsType fields any more, and Rule.Origin is a pointer. The
translator follows: it rejects actor and pathClass as before, now also
rejects except (the gadget has no exceptions, and they were ignored
before), and maps a missing origin and an empty one to no origin.
Signed-off-by: Alon Liwsky <40373481+AlonLiwsky@users.noreply.github.com>
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🔵 Needs a closer look
Security-critical BPF enforcement and teardown require maintainer review and supported-kernel/containerd qualification of the unmerged dependency stack, beyond what static and mock-based checks establish.
No open issues 🎉
Review effort: Balanced
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Alon's measured ~40-second interval without blocking after a node-agent restart is a merge/release gate for opt-in enforcement, not just a documented startup limitation. Please pursue SUB-9592 as a last-good survival design: pinning the exact owned BPF links/maps can preserve existing kernel enforcement after loader exit, but recovery must authenticate and re-adopt the exact instance/revision/bindings, keep strict identity scope, settle stale resources, and prove crash/restart as well as clean shutdown. Pinning alone does not cover a newly starting pod while userspace is down; that path needs an explicit fail-closed admission/Ready story. No claim of uninterrupted coverage or #1054 merge readiness until a controlled end-to-end test proves both existing and new-workload cases. I am keeping this PR Draft while that is investigated.
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PoC qualification scope — 2026-11-09
Qualification-environment clarification: The validation baseline is the AWS-published default AL2023 x86_64 EC2 AMIs in
eu-north-1:2023.12.20261026.1/ kernel-6.12 (ami-0e8550404ae6ca4c6) and2023.12.20261102.0/ kernel-6.18 (ami-0516089d963059a51). This supersedes the EKS-environment wording below: customer EKS AMIs and instances are inaccessible, so this is representative public-AMI qualification, not customer EKS configuration parity. All functional and safety requirements remain unchanged; the 14-OS expansion remains deferred to IG #27. Selecting these environments does not establish readiness, support, or completion of qualification.The first PoC targets AL2023 amd64 EKS on both deployed kernel/image pairs:
6.12.113-138.209.amzn20232023.12.202610266.18.56-125.164.amzn20232023.12.20261102These are qualification targets, not current support or admission claims. Current code, dependency pins and CI have not yet qualified this matrix; fresh isolated proof of the exact kernel/configuration/BTF/runtime identities is required on both targets.
The full functional and safety gates remain: all supported predicates and 256 rules, recoverable policy-denial
EPERM, prior LSM denial precedence, strictly nonblocking audit, exact scope, last-good reload, bounded TASK/WORK lifecycle, shared-runtime and consumer/exporter qualification, and independent review. There is no reduced-feature tier or new merge-readiness claim.The former 14-OS stock-kernel expansion is a separate later milestone, tracked in IG issue #27, outside this PoC completion scope. This scope-only update supersedes older target-matrix wording below; historical evidence remains historical, and no source, pin or validation result changes with this description update.
Current integration status — DRAFT, experimental, not merge-ready (2026-11-09)
86aaf1ddupdates onlygo.mod/go.sumand follows the prior IG repin3fce34f8follows signed-off scoped-IG repin05bdca85, which follows signed-off IG repin7b7f93d2, which follows signed-off lint remediation34937a45follows signed-off module-pin2214a667follows signed-off test-only3c3a75f1, which follows signed-off18d258f2, which follows signed-offfca10816. The latter migrates trusted image evidence to containerd v2 and preserves explicit policy-origin semantics; nil origin receives the ContainerProfile fallback, while explicit empty remains explicit. Unsupported nonempty nativedefaultModeand nonnilexceptare rejected rather than silently weakened. Failed replacement retains healthy last-good protection and reports stale/NotReady.github.com/inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadgetis replaced by the published remote forkgithub.life-white.uk/kubescape/inspektor-gadget v0.0.0-20261109144354-d8ff976355c2(exact VCS SHAd8ff976355c2d1b9cbdc721584185451266710f7); this matches the published IG Dev branch - add required field to the workflow #15 head;github.com/kubescape/storageremainsv0.0.388-0.20261105083812-136b4c98606f. No workspace or local-path replacement is used.86aaf1dd: no-workspace, read-only-module sandboxpolicy race tests, relevant vet and static Linux amd64 build pass. A reproducible ordinary-tracer archive built with exact pinned IG source and digest-pinned inputs closes the missing-archive gap: all 18 metadata tests, then all 77 top-level tracer tests, pass with race instrumentation and no skips in isolated root network/mount namespaces. Archive SHA256:01c061b6833013b85db278fa77e0b8ce533fbe0b1eda1e7cec116a57a83f27c6. Recorded host BPF map/program IDs and shared IG store are unchanged after the tests. Independent review verified this bounded result; it is not the full node-agent root suite, live policy enforcement or Ready.18d258f2passedGOWORK=offgo mod verify,go test ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...,go test -race ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...,go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., andgo build ./.... At3c3a75f1, the test-only IG interface mock compatibility fix passesGOWORK=off go test ./pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1and repository-wideGOWORK=off go test ./... -run '^$'(compile-only). At2214a667,GOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonlygo mod verify,go test ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...,go test -race ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...,go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., and repository-widego test ./... -run '^$'pass. This is not full-suite or live-runtime qualification.34937a45: compatible official golangci-lint v2.15.0run ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...reports 0 issues. WithGOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly,go test -race -count=1 ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...andgo vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...pass;git diff --check 2214a667... 34937a45...passes. Independent 18-file review approved a bounded Draft push only, with no introduced security/fail-open regression found. These checks do not establish whole-repository CI, live-kernel/containerd runtime readiness, or private-consumer integration.7b7f93d2: withGOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly,go mod verify,go test -race -count=1 ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...,go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., repository-widego test ./... -run '^$', andgo build ./...pass; compatible golangci-lint v2.15.0run ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...reports 0 issues. This remains compile/focused validation, not full-suite or live-runtime qualification.3fce34f8: withGOWORK=off GOFLAGS=-mod=readonly,go mod verify,go test -race -count=1 ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...,go vet ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/..., and repository-widego test ./... -run '^$'passed; compatible golangci-lint v2.15.0run ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/...reported 0 issues. The diff is module-pin-only; no full suite, live kernel, or hosted-CI qualification is claimed.go mod tidy -difffailure on the IG transitive test importgo.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler/tracer/typesremains an unclosed graph-hygiene gate, not a freshly rerun result. Live kernel/containerd 1.7 and 2.x, private downstream OTLP-array serialization, hosted CI/fresh Copilot review, and complete release graph qualification remain pending. IG PR #15 remains a Draft stacked dependency; its dependencies check may fail by design while the stack is unmerged. Do not merge or bypass the stacked dependency guard.Overview
Add opt-in SandboxPolicy execution enforcement to the public node-agent:
enforce_execowner: live policy reload without restarting role state, strict runtime bindings, last-good retention, and honest NotReady/protection-unconfirmed reporting.Stacked dependency / do not merge yet: depends on kubescape/inspektor-gadget#15 and the SandboxPolicy API in kubescape/storage#428. The exact published IG revision is pinned; the existing merge guard intentionally rejects an unmerged IG dependency. Do not bypass it—merge IG and align the consumer pin first.
Safety and supported environment
Disabled by default. Enabling requires an explicit administrator-trusted image/archive, containerd socket and writable control root. There is no legacy/path-only fallback and no inferred runtime-helper exemption. Unsupported policies or unreliable bindings are refused; healthy last-good enforcement is retained where it can be freshly confirmed.
The experimentally proven matrix is amd64, the documented pinned Linux 7.3 test kernel/BTF, containerd 1.7.30 / runc 1.3.4, and the constrained root, seccomp, capability, mount and device-policy configuration. This is not generic distribution/arm64/production compatibility. Strict runtime helpers can quarantine a binding; new policy revisions do not silently redeem unknown lineage.
No chart version/RBAC changes, parent aggregate status writer, private-agent dependency, or non-exec enforcement are included.
How to test
Standalone validation, without a development workspace:
These pass on the latest
mainbase. A CGO-disabled node-agent binary build also passed.The opt-in privileged fixture is
TestFullBackendContainerdKernel; run it only on an explicitly selected disposable supported-kernel machine, followingdocs/features/sandbox-policy.mdand the fixture's provisioning contract. The matching IG owner includes a reproducible Clang 21.1.8/pinned-BTF OCI archive builder.Isolated real-kernel evidence
Real CRI RunPodSandbox/CreateContainer/StartContainer and the production ORAS archive/native backend path passed:
Final combined run: PASS 7.56s; repeat runs: PASS 8.35s / 9.23s / 9.24s. All test VM/key/tag resources were deleted and API absence verified. This fixture does not run a kubelet/API server; controller/watch/status behavior has separate client-backed and cross-layer regression tests.
Review notes
Important regression boundaries include exact PID/mount/cgroup/pod identity reuse, failed retirement, stale withdrawal, configuration/discovery outages, pending-candidate attestation versus publication, superseded uncommitted abort, committed-finalization retry, transport recovery, and explicit kernel/userspace telemetry loss.
The IG pin is
v0.0.0-20261027133411-87a796fe9780, which includes IG main through #16 and preserves its ordinary-symbol streaming fix, plus reviewed canonical-prefix and cancellable-attachment fixes. Merge ownership remains with the maintainer; this PR does not merge or override checks in either repository.Summary by CodeRabbit
Consumer validation also fixed telemetry shutdown: kernel-counter sampling now honors cancellation while waiting for a busy backend mutex, without detached waiter goroutines. Cancellation/deadline regressions and existing snapshot tests pass under the race detector. This bounds backend-lock waiting, not arbitrary native syscall duration.
The reviewed IG matrix extension preserves the original exact BTF and additionally admits only
759807546ae2feaf616dc65c73167439867bb393dc468a4bd39c0ab1bc267d51, with full isolated upstream predicate/128-path/persistent OCI/actual CRI/hugetlb-exec proof. Provenance and evidence. Private Kubernetes/OTLP proof remains separate and pending.Internal event naming update (
1769ac13)The public authorization wrapper is now
sandboxpolicy.ExecVerdictEvent, constructed byNewExecVerdictEvent, and dispatched underutils.ExecAuthorizationEventType(execAuthorization). It deliberately does not implement the ordinaryutils.ExecEventobservation interface. This names the existing exec-specific contract explicitly; theVerdictpayload and enforcement behavior are unchanged.Internal dispatch names are not OTEL wire names. Private #747 maps authorization to the shared exec / R-PROC-1 wire family with explicit authorization phase; this public rename does not alter that wire contract. Source comments and feature documentation describe how to add a second enforcement gadget: use operation-specific facts/events/dispatch and extract only metadata proven common to both, rather than preemptively introducing a generic verdict abstraction.
Focused public sandboxpolicy/utils race tests, vet, cmd compilation and changed-line lint (0 issues) passed. This naming change has not rerun the historical live-kernel proof; its original evidence anchors remain unchanged.