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Stacked on #1054, so it can't merge before that one (check-ig-pin fails here for the same reason). This adds the seccomp layer for the SandboxPolicy privilege section: rules with a syscall target (and optional flags) are compiled into a seccomp profile and applied when a container starts. It is independent of the exec backend: it needs no BPF LSM and works with or without sandboxPolicyEnabled. Disabled by default behind sandboxSeccompEnabled.

Feature doc: docs/features/sandbox-seccomp.md. Design discussion: storage #428, the CRD design §5.4.

How it works

  • Compile (pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp): each CRD syscall expands to its kernel family (mount also covers fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, open_tree, …; setuid covers setresuid, setuid32, …). flags on clone/unshare become one masked match per namespace bit. With an enforced clone flag rule, clone3 gets ENOSYS so glibc falls back to clone. enforce → ERRNO(EPERM) + SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_LOG, audit → LOG; deny wins and enforce wins across policies.
  • Base: the layer only adds denials. It uses what the runtime reports through NRI: for RuntimeDefault, containerd hands over the exact profile, and that is the base. Unconfined containers get default-allow plus the denials. If the runtime reports nothing and the pod sets no profile, I don't inject (the kubelet may have applied RuntimeDefault) and report it instead. Own Localhost profiles and privileged containers are left alone and reported.
  • Delivery: an NRI plugin (50-kubescape-sandbox) sets the profile in CreateContainer plus an annotation with the profile revision, so a restarted agent knows what each container runs. It checks the runtime version at registration (containerd ≥ 2.2.0, CRI-O ≥ 1.34.0). Without usable NRI, the profile is written as an opt-in Localhost file under kubescape-sandbox/; the layer never edits pod specs.
  • Applies on restart: seccomp can't change a running process, so containers whose running profile differs from the desired one are listed in the node report: rule names in status.appliesOnRestart, reasons in a SeccompAppliesOnRestart condition, and rules seccomp can't express (actors, capability targets, setns flags, …) in SeccompRulesNotEnforced. With the exec controller on, this is added to its report through a small StatusContributor; otherwise the layer writes the report itself.
  • Events: adds the upstream audit_seccomp gadget to tracers.tar. The layer keeps records of profiles it injected, attributes them to rules, and dispatches a seccomp.Verdict under a separate key, syscallAuthorization, as the doc's "Adding a second enforcement gadget" section asks.
  • Exec controller: validateShape/Compile accept a privilege section, and a privilege-only policy no longer installs an empty exec plan. With the exec controller on, enforced exec policies also get the root barrier (chroot, pivot_root, setns, unshare, clone3, clone with NEWUSER/NEWNS).

How to Test

Unit tests: go test ./pkg/sandboxpolicy/... (the igbackend tests still need amd64, as on #1054).

I also ran it on kind (Kubernetes 1.36, containerd 2.3.4, arm64) with a small harness around the service:

  • selected pod gets the filter; unshare -U and mount (with CAP_SYS_ADMIN) fail with EPERM; Python threads and kubectl exec still work; unselected pods are untouched
  • a RuntimeDefault pod keeps the runtime's default-deny profile, with only the namespace bit narrowed and the mount family dropped
  • audit mode lets the call through and the kernel logs it
  • policy change → existing containers reported as "policy changed"; layer restart → revisions recovered from the annotation; recreated pod gets the new profile
  • without NRI → fallback file written and named in the report; a pod referencing it is protected and no longer reported

Then a full deployment on the same kind cluster: node-agent image built from this branch (with audit_seccomp in tracers.tar), installed with the chart from kubescape/helm-charts#988 and the CRDs from #962, only sandboxSeccomp enabled:

  • NRI plugin registers and synchronizes with containerd; selected pods get the profile (Unconfined and RuntimeDefault bases), unselected pods don't, audit pods log and allow
  • appliesOnRestart / Ready on the real node reports, and back to Ready once the pods are recreated
  • audit_seccomp → attributed verdicts under syscallAuthorization (checked with a lab-only logging receiver): unshare denied → no-userns, fsopen denied → no-mount, audited unshare → would-deny; also for pods created before a node-agent restart

The full deployment found two bugs that unit tests and the standalone harness didn't: the pod cache can still hold a deleted pod with the same name (now falls back to the API on a UID mismatch), and a policy created a second before its pods wasn't loaded yet at container creation (a pending watch event now reloads the policies first).

Open points, open to changes

  • Event name: I'm proposing family R-PRIV-1 / name syscall for the private exporter, with attributes syscall, verdict, mode, rule, origin, policy, layer=seccomp. That mapping lives in private-node-agent; I'll sync with the backend before wiring it.
  • feat(sandboxpolicy): add opt-in persistent exec enforcement #1054's root-barrier check (validateRootSeccomp) wants clone3 → EPERM and a single x86_64 ABI. With clone3 → EPERM, glibc can't create threads ("can't start new thread", reproduced with glibc 2.41), so I emit ENOSYS and the compat ABIs. I think the check should accept that shape, and a default-deny (RuntimeDefault-based) profile.
  • SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_LOG logs every ERRNO of the profile, including the base's own denials and glibc's per-thread clone3 fallback. Records are dropped before dispatch, but the kernel still writes them; I haven't measured the volume on thread-heavy workloads.
  • For a privilege-only policy with the exec controller on, its report still shows tier bpf-lsm / Ready from the exec side; the seccomp state is only in the added conditions.
  • Design update (shared-designs-and-docs#295, merged 2026-11-02): section defaults now have their own defaultMode/defaultOrigin, and deny rules can carry an except list. Those fields aren't in the pinned storage types yet (feat: add sandbox policy CRD API foundation storage#428), so this PR doesn't read them. Once they are, the privilege default deny should use the section's defaultMode instead of the policy mode, and an except entry with an actor should be handled like a scoped allow: seccomp doesn't deny that syscall and reports it under SeccompRulesNotEnforced.
  • Follow-up, not here: a UI "restart to apply" action (the operator's operatorAction framework could carry it).

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  • New Features
    • Added an experimental, disabled-by-default SandboxPolicy seccomp layer for Kubernetes. When enabled, it can apply policy-based syscall enforcement and auditing, with runtime profile support and a fallback when NRI is unavailable.
    • Added syscall verdict events and policy status reporting, including restart-pending and unsupported-rule details.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on configuration, prerequisites, policy behavior, event reporting, and verification.

Add a seccomp layer for SandboxPolicy privilege rules with syscall targets.
It compiles them into an OCI seccomp profile on top of the container's own
base, injects it through NRI at container creation, falls back to opt-in
Localhost profile files, reports containers that need a restart, and turns
audit_seccomp records into attributed syscallAuthorization verdicts.

The exec controller now accepts policies with a privilege section and does
not install an empty exec plan for privilege-only policies.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds an optional SandboxPolicy seccomp layer. It compiles privilege rules into Linux seccomp profiles, applies profiles through NRI or fallback files, attributes audit events to policy rules, and contributes status reports.

Changes: SandboxPolicy seccomp layer

Layer / File(s) Summary
Enablement and audit-event intake
pkg/config/*, cmd/main.go, pkg/containerwatcher/v2/..., pkg/utils/..., pkg/seccompmanager/v1/seccomp_manager.go, Makefile, go.mod
Adds disabled-by-default configuration and agent startup wiring. Adds the audit_seccomp tracer, event decoding and registration, and the profile-directory accessor.
Policy selection and rule compilation
pkg/sandboxpolicy/compiler.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/controller.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/compile.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/compile_test.go
Privilege sections no longer cause the existing exec compiler to reject a policy. Exec-plan selection now requires an exec section or sources. The seccomp compiler expands syscall rules and reports unsupported policy targets.
Container bases and seccomp profiles
pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/pod.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/profile.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/profile_test.go
Resolves container seccomp bases and capabilities, then builds profiles for unconfined and runtime-default bases. Tests cover rule actions, namespace flags, architecture handling, and invalid inputs.
Profile injection and fallback reconciliation
pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/service.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/service_test.go
Adds NRI container lifecycle handling, policy refresh and profile injection, revision tracking, and fallback profile-file reconciliation. Tests cover selection, injection, fallback behavior, runtime profiles, and runtime compatibility.
Verdict attribution and policy status
pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/events.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/view.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/controller.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/status.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/service.go, pkg/sandboxpolicy/seccomp/service_test.go, docs/features/sandbox-seccomp.md
Attributes seccomp audit events to rules in the tracked profile and dispatches verdicts. Adds policy status contributions for pending and unsupported rules. The documentation describes configuration, supported rules, profile delivery, reporting, and verification.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SandboxPolicy
  participant SeccompService
  participant NRI
  participant AuditSeccompTracer
  participant VerdictReceiver
  SandboxPolicy->>SeccompService: Supply policy resources
  SeccompService->>NRI: Inject profile and revision annotation
  AuditSeccompTracer->>SeccompService: Forward audit seccomp event
  SeccompService->>VerdictReceiver: Dispatch attributed verdict
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Resolve the readiness, fallback, syscall-family, and audit gaps before merging. Policies can report protection that is not active, init-container profiles can be omitted or deleted, and allowed mount-family calls can remain denied. The new enforcement layer is disabled by default, but the privilege-readiness regression also affects that default configuration.

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Minor follow-up An enforced unconditional decision removes only ActAllow entries. A valid default-deny base could c…

281-287: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

An enforced unconditional decision removes only ActAllow entries. A valid default-deny base could contain a matching ActLog entry, which is also an allowing action and would remain in the profile.

That syscall may remain permitted despite the enforce rule.

This can occur when: A runtime-default base uses ActLog for a syscall that a SandboxPolicy enforce rule denies.

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Update the filtering logic over entries so an enforced unconditional deny
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Add a test for the audit seccomp tracer's subscription and callback path.

TestAuditSeccompFields checks only the datasource fields. It does not run eventOperator() or callback(). A change that drops the datasource subscription or the forwarding to eventCallback would not fail any test in this package. The existing syscall_flush_test.go harness shows a pattern that registers a datasource, instantiates the operator, and emits packets without a kernel gadget. A similar test can use that pattern to assert that eventCallback receives a *utils.DatasourceEvent whose EventType is utils.AuditSeccompEventType.

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"operator.oci.ebpf.collect-kstack": "false",
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err := at.runtime.RunGadget(at.gadgetCtx, nil, params)
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logger.L().Error("Error running gadget", helpers.String("gadget", at.gadgetCtx.Name()), helpers.Error(err))
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Supported by static analysis

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Restart or report the audit_seccomp tracer when RunGadget fails after Start.

AuditSeccompTracer.Start returns nil before its goroutine calls RunGadget. If RunGadget fails, the goroutine only logs the error. The tracer does not retry, and nothing marks it unhealthy. Enforcement is unaffected. The SandboxPolicy seccomp verdict stream stops until the agent restarts, and the only signal is one error log line.

Suggested direction: wrap the RunGadget call in a bounded retry, as DNSTracer.Start does with backoff.RetryNotify. Alternatively, surface the failure in the SandboxPolicy node status so operators can see that verdicts are no longer reported.

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Keeping this as is for now: it follows the same pattern as the other OCI tracers here (capabilities, symlink, …), which also only log a failed RunGadget. Enforcement doesn't depend on it. A shared retry for all tracers would be a separate change.

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@AlonLiwsky Understood. We can leave this unchanged in this PR and treat shared tracer retry handling as separate work. The concern affects verdict reporting, not enforcement.

Would you like me to open a follow-up GitHub issue for shared retry handling across OCI tracers?

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The opt-in privilege layer fills a gap in the current exec-only base, but the failures below can leave policies unprotected, deny audit-only decisions, or prevent exec enforcement. Please address these before merging. The inherited IG pin check also remains blocked by the stacked base; it is not a new change in this diff.

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set.Add(layer)
if controller != nil {
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High — a startup failure can report an unenforced privilege policy as Ready. The contributor is registered before Start; if its node GET fails (for example, a transient API error), Start returns without starting either loop, but the caller only logs and continues. The empty contributor suppresses the seccompDisabled fallback in status.go:100-104, and Contribute returns no pending rules or conditions. With the exec controller enabled, privilege policies can therefore report Ready while no seccomp profiles are delivered. Register only after successful startup or expose a persistent failure condition, and test the failed-start path.

result.Rules = append(result.Rules, rule)
}
}
if section.Default == api.ActionDeny {

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High — the default deny overrides an explicit audit-mode rule. For an enforce-mode policy with privilege.default: deny and a mount deny rule with mode: audit, this appends an enforced privilege.default for the same syscalls; merge then chooses enforce, so mount is blocked instead of merely audited. The section default should apply when no rule matches, and rule mode is an override. Exclude explicitly matched decisions from the default as appropriate, including overlapping syscall families and scoped rules, and add a regression test for the audit override.

continue
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if s.options.ExecEnforcement && view.Spec.Mode == api.ModeEnforce && (view.Spec.Exec != nil || len(view.Spec.Sources) > 0) {
rules = append(rules, RootBarrierRules(view.Identity)...)

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High — the generated root barrier cannot pass the exec backend's existing validation. When both layers are enabled, this adds a profile with compat ABIs and clone3 returning ENOSYS (or a RuntimeDefault-based profile). igbackend/imageevidence.go:750-760 requires exactly x86_64, default allow, and clone3 EPERM, so the backend rejects the injected profile and cannot establish the exec binding. The base PR discussion already identifies the mismatch. Coordinate a validator that safely accepts the generated barrier and add a producer-to-validator regression test; changing ENOSYS to EPERM alone would break glibc thread creation as described there.

return &pending{container: id, reason: skipped.reason, rules: want.rules}
case err != nil && want != nil:
return &pending{container: id, reason: "cannot build the profile: " + err.Error(), rules: want.rules}
case err != nil || want == nil || want.revision == applied:

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Medium — removing the last rule loses the restart warning. If a running container has an injected deny and the policy is changed to default: allow with no deny rules, desiredFor returns nil, and this branch reports no pending change even though the old seccomp filter remains active until the container restarts. The node report can become Ready while the supposedly removed syscall is still denied. Retain enough applied-policy identity to report that the obsolete filter needs a restart, and cover the transition to zero desired rules.

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Closing this PR. After the discussion with Ben, Rotem and you, we're dropping seccomp for the privilege section and enforcing it with BPF LSM instead, so policy changes apply live with no pod restart. The privilege gadget continues in a new PR on top of #1054 (pkg/ebpf/gadgets/enforce_privilege). I'll link it here once it's open.

Thanks for the review. Where each point lands:

  1. Ready on failed startup: seccomp-specific, goes away. The new PR keeps the rule that privilege never reports Ready when nothing enforces it.
  2. Default overriding an audit rule: still applies. The new gadget uses the default only when no rule matches, and the rule's own mode wins. I'm adding a regression test for your exact case.
  3. Root barrier vs validateRootSeccomp: still open, but for feat(sandboxpolicy): add opt-in persistent exec enforcement #1054 now. Without seccomp, the privilege gadget's LSM hooks (path_chroot, sb_pivotroot, setns/unshare through capable, task_alloc for clone3 flags) could serve as the root barrier. Happy to discuss what the exec engine needs from it.
  4. Restart warning on rule removal: seccomp-specific, goes away (LSM rules change live).

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The privilege gadget continues in #1067, with the controller connection in #1068.

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