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feat(sandboxpolicy): enforce the privilege section with a BPF LSM gadget - #1067
This PR adds enforcement of the SandboxPolicy privilege section with BPF LSM, without seccomp, and a small common library for the enforcement gadgets. It targets #1054's branch. The controller connection comes in a second PR stacked on this one.
Common library — pkg/ebpf/gadgets/common/
BPF headers: the bindings map (cgroup → policy slot), policy rank resolution, the verdict base fields (generation, cgroup, deny, mode), the per-CPU counters and the report rate limit, and the arming rule.
Go package enforcement/: the binding controller of one node-wide gadget instance. The policy is written and frozen before any binding; containers are bound and unbound live; tasks that already run in a container are armed when it is bound.
I took these pieces from the enforce_exec simple engine in our Inspektor Gadget fork (PR Dev branch - add required field to the workflow #15) and kept its layouts where they apply. The library README lists what still differs before exec could move onto it.
Hooks: namespace creation and joining (including clone3 flags), mount and the new mount API, pivot_root/chroot, capabilities, ptrace/process_vm_*, modules and kexec, bpf, perf_event_open, keys, io_uring_setup, userfaultfd, mknod, setuid/setgid and capset. A deny returns -EPERM from the LSM hook, before the side effect.
Only tasks that executed outside the runtime mount namespace (and their children) are judged. So runc's own setup, docker run and kubectl exec keep working.
One instance per node. A slot is one combination of privilege policies; containers with the same combination share it. Limits: 1024 containers, 64 slots, 512 entries per slot, 16384 in total.
The compiler merges several policies into one slot, as the SandboxPolicy design describes (union of rules, explicit deny > allow > default, default deny if any policy denies).
Additional Information
Open questions:
Merge rule. I added one rule on top of the CRD text: a monitoring (audit) deny rule never weakens another policy's enforce deny, including its enforce default deny. Example: policy A audit-denies mount; policy B is enforce with default deny and no mount rule → mount stays blocked. By the CRD text ("defaults apply only when no rule matches"), A's audit rule would decide and the mount would only be audited. An explicit allow still beats another policy's default deny. Does the design agree?
Policy change model. A policy content change replaces the node-wide instance (start the new one, bind every container, then stop the old one; both enforce during the overlap). This follows the exec gadget's instance replacement. The shared runtime in PR Dev branch - add required field to the workflow #15 changes policy inside one instance with snapshots, and the common gadget contract describes an inner-map swap. All policy map access is in privilege_policy.h, so either can replace this later.
One instance per node, ahead of exec. The exec owner in feat(sandboxpolicy): add opt-in persistent exec enforcement #1054 is still one instance per container. The bindings value here is a policy slot; in enforce_exec it is 0 or a runtime mount-namespace inode.
Build.ig image build mounts only the gadget folder, so the gadget Makefile sets IG_SOURCE_PATH to the repository root and the ../common includes resolve. This reuses an Inspektor Gadget variable that is meant for in-tree gadgets of the IG repository.
Not supported yet: actor, except and pathClass in privilege rules.
How to Test
go test ./pkg/ebpf/gadgets/... (the common/enforcement and runtime tests need Linux).
make -C pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege build.
I also ran a lab matrix outside this PR, for every hook family: enforce denies with EPERM and no side effect, audit only counts, a live policy change on a running process, an unbound container is untouched, docker run/docker exec keep working, package installs and overlay writes keep working, defaults and precedence, arming of running tasks, two slots in one instance. Linux 6.8 arm64: 214/214. Linux 6.12 arm64: 212/216 — the 4 failures are kexec_file_load, which that kernel rejects with ENOSYS before the hook. Not tested at runtime: x86_64 (it compiles) and kernels older than 6.8.
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New Features
Added a privilege policy gadget that can audit or enforce rules for capabilities, namespaces, mounts, and other privileged operations.
Policies support allow/deny defaults, targeted rules, and multiple policy slots. When policies overlap, the most restrictive matching rule applies; explicit allows can override another policy’s default deny.
Container bindings can be updated while the gadget is running, and existing tasks in a bound container are included.
Denial events include decision details. Event reporting is limited to 100 events per CPU per second; enforcement is not limited.
Documentation
Added setup guidance, policy details, limitations, and an example policy.
…ent library
pkg/ebpf/gadgets/common is a small library for BPF LSM enforcement gadgets:
the bindings map (cgroup -> policy slot), policy rank resolution, verdict
base fields and counters, the arming rule, and the Go binding controller of
one node-wide instance. It is taken from the enforce_exec simple engine of
the pinned Inspektor Gadget fork.
pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege enforces the SandboxPolicy privilege
section with BPF LSM, no seccomp: namespaces, mounts, pivot_root/chroot,
capabilities, ptrace, modules, bpf, perf, keys, io_uring, userfaultfd,
mknod, setuid/setgid and capset. Its compiler merges several policies into
one slot per combination.
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Adds shared enforcement helpers and an enforce_privilege gadget. The change includes privilege policy parsing and compilation, BPF LSM hooks, task arming, container binding control, runtime integration, build targets, documentation, and tests.
Adds shared cgroup binding lookup, policy ranking, task arming, and verdict-reporting helpers. The common README describes the library and its build setup.
Policy validation and compilation pkg/ebpf/gadgets/common/merge/*, pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/policy/*, pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/examples/policy.yaml
Adds policy parsing and validation, kernel-map ABI types, and compilation of policy documents into bounded slots. Shared merge vectors and tests cover policy combination and compiler behavior.
BPF policy evaluation and enforcement pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/privilege_policy.h, pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/program.bpf.c
Adds policy lookup helpers and BPF LSM checks for syscall, capability, mount, and other privilege operations. Enforce-ranked denials return -EPERM; denial events are subject to the reporting limit.
Task arming and binding lifecycle pkg/ebpf/gadgets/common/enforcement/*
Adds Linux arming for existing cgroup tasks and a controller that initializes policy maps, replays bindings, and handles live bind and unbind operations. Tests cover controller lifecycle and portability checks.
Gadget runtime and build integration Makefile, pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/Makefile, pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/runtime/*, pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/gadget.yaml, pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/README.md
Adds the runtime operator, gadget configuration, build targets, documentation, and runtime tests. The root build list includes enforce_privilege, and the build loop now exits when a sub-make fails.
sequenceDiagram
participant PolicyYAML
participant Parser as privpolicy.Parse
participant Compiler as privpolicy.CompileSlots
participant Runtime as enforce-privilege runtime
participant Controller as enforcement.Bindings
participant BPF as BPF LSM
participant RingBuffer as verdict ring buffer
PolicyYAML->>Parser: Parse and validate policy
Parser->>Compiler: Provide validated documents
Compiler->>Runtime: Return compiled entries
Runtime->>Controller: Create controller and write policy
Controller->>BPF: Write cgroup binding
BPF->>RingBuffer: Report eligible denial event
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kubescape/node-agent#1062: Changes the pinned Inspektor Gadget version and root gadget build inputs, which are used by this gadget’s build integration.
kubescape/node-agent#1054: Adds enforce_exec BPF LSM enforcement; this change adds a separate privilege gadget and shared enforcement components.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 95c2f
Mergeable with owner awareness of the documented enforcement gap under task-storage allocation failure. The reported benchmark regression warrants follow-up, but is not established as caused by this change.
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- each namespace flag of a call resolves on its own (bpf_loop), so an
allow for one flag cannot carry another flag past a default deny
- compat ptrace read-mode access is not judged
- failed arming marks are counted; a deep tree arms instead of matching a
wrong namespace
- transient arming failures are retried and reported
- a binding whose rollback failed stays tracked for Unbind
- reject NUL in mountFsType and duplicate slot generation entries
- the gadget build loop stops on the first failure
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Needs clarification: should an audit-mode explicit deny in one policy override a different enforce-mode policy's default deny, or should the operation be blocked? The PR deliberately blocks it, while the described CRD rule says defaults apply only when no rule matches. This affects whether a live workload is denied or only audited; please confirm the intended cross-policy precedence (and update the design or implementation accordingly). The single-policy audit-rule/default-deny case is separately covered by TestAuditDenyNeverWeakensEnforceDefaultDeny.
I found no other confirmed blockers in the static review. The task-storage allocation and no-audit capability limitations are documented in the existing discussion. The benchmark CI reported +27.0% average and +25.8% peak memory versus its baseline; causation is not established. The isolated local test attempt could not resolve dependencies with networking disabled, so I could not independently run the gadget tests or exercise BPF hooks.
- the gadget has its own policy document with Parse and an example file;
the SandboxPolicy translation moves to the controller connection (kubescape#1068)
- neutral names in the gadget, BPF, gadget.yaml and README
- a guard test fails on imports outside Inspektor Gadget and the gadget
folders, and on host-product names or outside includes
- an opt-in test runs the gadget with Inspektor Gadget alone
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Revalidate the task identity after the pidfd is open.
armThreads checks the mount namespace of a TID, then calls PidfdOpen on that same TID. If the thread exits and the kernel reuses the TID in that gap, the arming mark can land on a replacement task. The mark is never cleared, and the BPF judgment applies to armed tasks in bound cgroups. Bind the namespace and cgroup checks to the pidfd, so the check and the mark apply to the same task.
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Review comment at @pkg/ebpf/gadgets/common/enforcement/arm_linux.go around lines
96 - 104:
In armThreads, bind the namespace and cgroup checks to the task represented by
the opened pidfd before applying the arming mark. Ensure a reused TID cannot
pass validation as the original task; use an established pidfd-based identity
check, and preserve the existing handling of exited tasks and errors.
validateConfig checks only the slot, generation, and duplicate META count for KindMeta entries. It does not check the ID, Qual, or Name fields. The BPF header lookup uses a key with only the slot and kind set. A META entry with any other key field is written to the map, but the lookup misses it. The binding controller then reports the slot as ready. On that slot, the BPF hooks return without judging the task, so privilege rules are not enforced.
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if e.Key.Kind == privpolicy.KindMeta {
+ if e.Key != (privpolicy.KernelKey{Slot: e.Key.Slot, Kind: privpolicy.KindMeta}) {+ return fmt.Errorf("slot %d has a noncanonical generation key", e.Key.Slot)+ }
if e.Value.Generation != p.Generation {
return fmt.Errorf("slot %d carries another generation", e.Key.Slot)
}
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Update validateConfig’s KindMeta validation to reject entries unless their
KernelKey contains only the expected slot and KindMeta kind, with ID, Qual, and
Name unset. Preserve the existing generation and duplicate-META checks for
canonical entries.
Build the duplicate-generation case from a one-slot policy.
Build the duplicate-generation case from a one-slot policy.
At runtime_test.go:65-67, the test sets Slots = 2 on a policy that has one slot-0 META entry. It then appends a second slot-0 META entry. The duplicate check at runtime.go:69-71 runs first and rejects the input. If that check is removed, the count check at runtime.go:75-76 still rejects the input, because len(metas) stays at 1 and Slots is 2. The err == nil assertion passes in both cases, so the test does not exercise the duplicate check.
Build the duplicate case from a one-slot policy. With one slot, the count check passes, and only the duplicate check can reject the input.
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Update the duplicate-generation case in the test around validateConfig to use a
one-slot policy before appending the second slot-0 META entry, so the META count
check passes and the assertion specifically exercises duplicate rejection.
Reject quoted includes that climb above the gadget folders.
Reject quoted includes that climb above the gadget folders.
badInclude rejects a leading ../../ and a ../ that is not followed by c. It does not reject a later .. segment, so #include "../common/../../outside.h" passes. Whether that include resolves depends on the mounted tree. make build mounts the repository root through IG_SOURCE_PATH, but the default ig image build mounts only the gadget folder. The guard should reject any /../ inside a quoted include. The added alternative still accepts "x.h" and "../common/x.h".
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Update the badInclude guard in the portability test to reject quoted includes
containing any /../ segment, including later traversal segments, while
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- Line 43: Update the `quotedInclude` pattern so it accepts optional whitespace
between `#` and `include`, while preserving matching of quoted include paths.
Add a case to the `includeOutside` test table for a spaced directive that
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No blocking findings. The standalone gadget now documents its policy merge semantics and no longer includes the SandboxPolicy adapter; my earlier question about the CRD contract should be addressed when that adapter is integrated, and does not block this gadget review.
The targeted Go tests for common enforcement, privilege policy, and runtime passed in an isolated environment. I did not build or load the BPF gadget locally. Build and cross-platform build checks have passed; component and benchmark checks are still running. The documented task-storage allocation and no-audit capability limitations remain.
…ntainer
A parent cgroup bound before its containers start (a pod cgroup) also
covered the OCI createContainer and startContainer hooks: runc init forks
them inside the container mount namespace, so they were armed and judged
as workload. A strict policy then stopped the container from starting (for
example kind's own createContainer hook, a bind mount).
A task is no longer armed at exec when its parent is unarmed, outside the
runtime mount namespace, and in the same mount namespace and cgroup as the
task: it was forked by a runtime helper inside the container. The workload
and exec commands are execed by runc init itself, whose parent is in the
runtime mount namespace, so they stay armed, and their children inherit
the mark as before. An unknown runtime namespace trusts no parent.
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… of Linux 6.15
Linux 6.15 added `bool kernel` to the bpf hook and dropped the attr
argument of perf_event_open, so the previous-verdict check refused every
6.15+ kernel (and the old perf_event_open program would not load there).
Both programs now read `ret` at the position of the running kernel: a
CO-RE type match against security_list_options picks the branch at load.
The BTF check returns a result per hook (LSMHookArgMismatches) and
accepts both signatures for these two hooks. The other 21 hooks have the
same argument count from 6.1 to 6.18 (checked in lsm_hook_defs.h).
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setns into a namespace checks CAP_SYS_ADMIN twice (the namespace user
namespace and the caller's). Audit lets the first check pass, so one
audited setns gives two identical verdicts; enforce stops at the first.
A per-syscall dedupe is not reliable in an LSM hook (there is no syscall
instance id, and a time window would merge real calls), so the README
documents it and a kernel test pins it down. The test fixture now records
the fields of each verdict.
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The walk repeated until a pass saw no new task id, so a container that
keeps starting short-lived tasks could fail the bind with "tasks still
changing". A pass now counts only the tasks it had to arm: a task that
already carries the mark (a child forked after its parent was armed) or
that exited is not progress. The rescan for children forked before their
parent was armed stays.
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…origin
Rule origins and the new section default origin are pointers in the
policy document. The compiler gives an explicit "" its own origin id;
id 0 still means no origin. Compiled.DefaultOrigins lists, per slot, the
default origins of the documents that agree with the merged default,
for events of the default.
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A section can set the mode of its default apart from the policy mode.
The compiler ignored it, so an audit policy with an enforce default only
audited its default deny. The merged default and the audit-deny raise
now use each document's defaultMode, else its policy mode.
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Alignment review against the enforce_exec reference (kubescape/inspektor-gadget#15, #1054). enforce_exec is the reference implementation for SandboxPolicy enforcement gadgets, and every enforcement gadget is held to the same production quality bar — this is production code, not an MVP:
Strict never allows on any fault (fail closed); Audit is strictly nonblocking, even on faults. Unresolved or unsupported policy semantics produce an explicit NotReady, never a silent allow or a silent downgrade.
Exact cgroup scope (no descendants) plus host consent; any wider scope is an explicit, consented, per-binding property shown in status.
One long-lived shared node-wide BPF collection per enforcement family, with bindings and bounded compiled-policy storage published in place, keeping last-good; no per-binding or per-policy-change collection reloads.
Bounded state with exact accounting; witness counters for every fail-closed or fault path, surfaced as degraded/NotReady in status.
Ready only after qualification on the exact AL2023 amd64 kernels 6.12.113-138.209 and 6.18.56-125.164, with live tests for races, exhaustion, injected faults, restart/reload (last-good) and coexistence with the other enforcement gadgets attached on the same LSM hooks (a prior LSM denial is never overridden, one gadget's fault never becomes an allow elsewhere).
Summary. One node-wide enforce_privilege instance with about 20 LSM hooks: namespaces, mounts, capable/capset, setuid/setgid, ptrace, modules, bpf, perf, keys, io_uring/userfaultfd and mknod. Policy is a frozen hash keyed by (slot, kind, id, qual, name); a slot is one merged combination of policies. The bindings map (cgroup to slot) is looked up through up to 32 ancestor cgroups. Only armed tasks are judged: a task is armed by an exec outside the runtime mount namespace, or inherits the mark. A new combination replaces the whole instance, with old and new overlapping. The PR also extracts a common library modeled on the enforce_exec simple engine.
Verdict: needs changes. Good: every hook preserves a prior ret, Audit-rank denies return 0, resources are bounded, and unsupported actor/except/pathClass are rejected. Needs changes: descendant scope, an inferred helper exemption, a fail-open on a missing header, one Audit path that blocks, and whole-instance reload.
Topology. One node-wide instance with slots is closer to the reference topology than the per-container exec owner in #1054; please do not regress to per-binding loading. However, each new combination still reloads the collection and re-arms every task from userspace. The target is one long-lived shared node-wide BPF collection per enforcement family, with scope-isolated bindings and bounded compiled-policy storage published in place (last-good, no full reload per policy change): one long-lived collection where only slots are published (for example a per-slot inner map, or a generation swap behind privilege_policy.h).
Merge rule. The reference precedence (enforced deny > audited deny > allow; defaults apply only when no rule matches) is defined within one policy. Your rule that an Audit deny never weakens another policy's Strict default is fail-safe. Keep it, and record it in the SandboxPolicy CRD design.
Qualification. Testing so far is arm64 on 6.8 and 6.12 only. Qualify on the exact AL2023 amd64 kernels 6.12.113-138.209 and 6.18.56-125.164 before privilege reports Ready.
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[should]BINDINGS_CGROUP_DEPTH 32 makes every binding cover descendant cgroups. The reference scope is exact cgroup (no descendants) plus host consent; see gadgets/enforce_exec/README.md in kubescape/inspektor-gadget#15 (branch spike/enforce-exec-interface): "exact, excluding descendant cgroups". Keep exact as the default. Add a per-binding flag in binding_value.reserved (SCOPE_EXACT=0, SCOPE_SUBTREE=1) and set it only for the pod bindings from #1068. Otherwise the exec and privilege families cannot share one bindings semantic in a shared node-wide collection.
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[should] When a cgroup is bound but its slot has no META entry, the hook allows. That is fail-open on a structural fault. The reference simple engine denies when the header is missing (gadgets/enforce_exec/program.bpf.c in kubescape/inspektor-gadget#15 (branch spike/enforce-exec-interface): if (!header) return -1;). Treat this case differently from mode == OFF: count VERDICT_COUNT_SECTION_ERROR, then Strict returns -EPERM and Audit returns 0. Store the class in binding_value so it is known without the header and is set per binding.
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[should]CLONE_INTO_CGROUP with a failed child mark returns -ENOMEM even from an Audit or unbound parent. That breaks the rule that Audit is strictly nonblocking, even on faults (gadgets/enforce_exec/fullruntime/README.md in kubescape/inspektor-gadget#15 (branch spike/enforce-exec-interface): "Audit leaves the child unevaluated"). Refuse only when the parent's binding is Strict. Otherwise allow, and increment a node fault witness counter that #1068 maps to NotReady for Strict bindings, treating an unreadable counter as unknown.
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[should] Design issue. arming_runtime_child exempts any exec whose parent is unarmed and shares its mount namespace and cgroup. The reference Strict profile has no inferred runtime-helper exemption; the only exception is the owner opt-in BindRestricted. Here, a workload task left unmarked (Audit slots record no fault) makes all its exec'd descendants permanently exempt. Make the exemption a per-binding, owner-admitted flag like BindRestricted, and count exempted execs.
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[should]task_alloc is shared with the TASK lifecycle of enforce_exec's shared node-wide collection. Add a kernel test with both programs attached, in both attach orders, proving that:
a privilege deny leaves exec state consistent (security_task_alloc calls task_free on failure);
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[nit] Arming happens at bprm_committed_creds, and every hook re-resolves the binding from the current cgroup. The reference latches the class at exec (the exec capsule freezes the original class) and never falls back to the current cgroup for an in-flight exec. Plan to consume a shared latched route/class instead of a private armed_tasks.
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Overview
This PR adds enforcement of the SandboxPolicy
privilegesection with BPF LSM, without seccomp, and a small common library for the enforcement gadgets. It targets #1054's branch. The controller connection comes in a second PR stacked on this one.Common library —
pkg/ebpf/gadgets/common/bindingsmap (cgroup → policy slot), policy rank resolution, the verdict base fields (generation,cgroup,deny,mode), the per-CPU counters and the report rate limit, and the arming rule.enforcement/: the binding controller of one node-wide gadget instance. The policy is written and frozen before any binding; containers are bound and unbound live; tasks that already run in a container are armed when it is bound.Privilege gadget —
pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege/clone3flags),mountand the new mount API,pivot_root/chroot, capabilities,ptrace/process_vm_*, modules and kexec,bpf,perf_event_open, keys,io_uring_setup,userfaultfd,mknod,setuid/setgidandcapset. A deny returns-EPERMfrom the LSM hook, before the side effect.docker runandkubectl execkeep working.Additional Information
Open questions:
mount; policy B is enforce with default deny and no mount rule →mountstays blocked. By the CRD text ("defaults apply only when no rule matches"), A's audit rule would decide and the mount would only be audited. An explicit allow still beats another policy's default deny. Does the design agree?privilege_policy.h, so either can replace this later.bindingsvalue here is a policy slot; in enforce_exec it is 0 or a runtime mount-namespace inode.ig image buildmounts only the gadget folder, so the gadget Makefile setsIG_SOURCE_PATHto the repository root and the../commonincludes resolve. This reuses an Inspektor Gadget variable that is meant for in-tree gadgets of the IG repository.actor,exceptandpathClassin privilege rules.How to Test
go test ./pkg/ebpf/gadgets/...(thecommon/enforcementandruntimetests need Linux).make -C pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege build.EPERMand no side effect, audit only counts, a live policy change on a running process, an unbound container is untouched,docker run/docker execkeep working, package installs and overlay writes keep working, defaults and precedence, arming of running tasks, two slots in one instance. Linux 6.8 arm64: 214/214. Linux 6.12 arm64: 212/216 — the 4 failures arekexec_file_load, which that kernel rejects withENOSYSbefore the hook. Not tested at runtime: x86_64 (it compiles) and kernels older than 6.8.Summary by CodeRabbit