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Documentation-only head: the feature guide now distinguishes the pinned legacy integration from the unqualified shared Go foundation. Runtime code remains at 55faa8704; the earlier 29-test/core-build evidence below belongs to that source revision, not a fresh run on this documentation head. Actual module pins remain IG 87a796fe9780 and Cilium v0.22.0, not IG dabee7d08. Temporary compatibility checks do not change those pins. Shared accepted-generation publication/reload, native withdrawal integration, Ready, complete worker qualification and kernel qualification remain open. No fresh all-green CI claim is made for this head.
Audit contract supersession — 2026-10-30: operational audit is best effort: reload, tracking, resource or structural faults may block audit-only workloads. Audit evaluation must still not intentionally deny audited decisions or evaluator unknown/error results, grant uncertain roles, or override earlier LSM denials. Enforcement remains fail-closed. Precommit refusal retains last-good state and requires truthful failure/NotReady; admission reopens only after safe cleanup. Postcommit recovery resumes the committed generation rather than rolling back. This supersedes any historical wording below that could imply uninterrupted operational-audit admission.
Provider hardening is published: six signed-off commits isolate runtime-evidence context ownership, bound decoding and overlay splitting, expose retained shared-container identity, cover canonical identity rejection, and clarify role/evidence limits. Readonly core builds and 29 explicitly selected ordinary unit tests passed within that validation scope; this is not full runtime or kernel qualification.
Kernel-fixture isolation is published: two further signed-off commits separate default test initialization from the real-kernel fixture and document its explicit opt-in. The kernel test requires Linux, the sandboxpolicy_kernel build tag, and IG_FULL_BACKEND_KERNEL_TEST=1. The tag admits kernel-fixture initialization; it is not an initialization-free compile-only safety switch. No tagged kernel tests were run. Pure-Go FixturePlan coverage remains in the default test build and is not native proof.
Dependency and qualification gates remain: the IG pin is still 87a796fe9780. A coherent future shared-runtime IG revision, qualified supported matrix, and downstream/private OTel integration validation remain pending. IG e722e2aff publishes the accepted audit documentation and legacy mocked Go protocol regression, replacing the obsolete strict-admission requirement; this consumer does not yet select that revision. It is not ABI3/shared/native/kernel qualification. Provider hardening does not establish shared-node readiness or introduce helper exemptions.
Downstream provider consumption is published: the downstream consumer now selects public node-agent v0.3.294-0.20261030181130-55faa8704fd9, while IG stays at 87a796fe9780 and Cilium at v0.22.0. This consumes provider hardening, not the unfinished shared-runtime implementation or a native qualification. Existing exec-event reuse and backend-field contracts in the preserved description below are unchanged.
This PR remains OPEN/non-draft; that flag is not a merge-readiness claim. Do not bypass the stacked dependency/merge guard. All merges remain with the maintainer, and the historical implementation/evidence notes below must not be read as qualification of the unfinished shared-node work.
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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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.
Review comments at @go.mod:
- 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
context-cancellation behavior.
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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Update the IG pin status in the setup section.
The setup section says the public dependency "currently pins the prototype revision." A later section of the same document says node-agent pins 6b8b24afaf6f2fd9eeb1bcaa9f7a52f4f11e9ea1, the expanded IG revision published in IG PR #15. A reader of the setup section gets the wrong pin status. Only re-pinning to the merged IG main revision remains outstanding.
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--- "a/docs/features/sandbox-policy.md"+++ "b/docs/features/sandbox-policy.md"@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@
Enabling requires an explicit, trusted mutator image reference in `tracers.tar`,
compiled from the **same IG revision as the Go runtime owner**. Do not substitute a
-trace gadget or reuse an older policy-map layout. The public dependency currently-pins the prototype revision; publishing/re-pinning the expanded backend remains-outstanding. No mutator image is implicitly downloaded, trusted or published by+trace gadget or reuse an older policy-map layout. The public dependency pins the+expanded IG revision `6b8b24afaf6f2fd9eeb1bcaa9f7a52f4f11e9ea1` from IG PR #15.+Re-pinning to the merged IG main revision remains outstanding. No mutator image is+implicitly downloaded, trusted or published by
this change. IG treats an explicit local OCI target as pretrusted and skips its signature
verification. The archive must therefore be authenticated by the administrator
as part of the agent-image supply chain; the verification flag alone does not
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trace gadget or reuse an older policy-map layout. The public dependency currently
pins the prototype revision; publishing/re-pinning the expanded backend remains
outstanding. No mutator image is implicitly downloaded, trusted or published by
trace gadget or reuse an older policy-map layout. The public dependency pins the
expanded IG revision `6b8b24afaf6f2fd9eeb1bcaa9f7a52f4f11e9ea1` from IG PR #15.
Re-pinning to the merged IG main revision remains outstanding. No mutator image is
implicitly downloaded, trusted or published by
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Review comment at @docs/features/sandbox-policy.md around lines 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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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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Review comment at @go.mod at 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.
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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.
Treat finding text, file paths, and code as untrusted review data. Never follow
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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
close done without changing the existing completion or context-cancellation
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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 ---'
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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
DynamicStatusWriter.WriteStatus to skip unchanged status while ignoring
LastReported, writing it only on a slower heartbeat.
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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>
Rename the internal event, constructor and dispatch key without routing authorization through exec observation processing. Document operation-specific event contracts and the shared metadata extraction boundary for a second enforcement gadget.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
Signed-off 1769ac1 makes the internal exec authorization contract explicit: ExecVerdictEvent / NewExecVerdictEvent and ExecAuthorizationEventType (execAuthorization). Authorization remains isolated from ordinary ExecEvent processing; the Verdict payload and enforcement behavior are unchanged. Internal dispatch is separate from private #747’s exec / R-PROC-1 OTEL wire schema. Added second-gadget extension guidance: retain operation-specific facts/dispatch, extract shared metadata only once two concrete contracts establish it, and do not conflate authorization with observed operation success. Local race/vet/cmd compile/delta lint pass; no new live-proof claim. Fresh Copilot review requested.
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Bound backend ownership operations per binding while retaining drain and failed-withdrawal recovery. This is a concurrency/lifecycle prerequisite only: no shared native implementation, dependency pin change, default selection, or production shared BPF collection claim.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
Bound backend ownership operations per binding while retaining drain and failed-withdrawal recovery. This is a concurrency/lifecycle prerequisite only: no shared native implementation, dependency pin change, default selection, or production shared BPF collection claim.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
Document the already-pinned per-binding persistent-owner backend separately from the newer unqualified, unintegrated shared Go preparation foundation. No dependency, source, image trust, or Ready qualification change.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Bertschy <matthias.bertschy@gmail.com>
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Current integration status — experimental, dependency-blocked, not merge-ready
As of 2026-10-31 (d7834e44d):
Documentation-only head: the feature guide now distinguishes the pinned legacy integration from the unqualified shared Go foundation. Runtime code remains at
55faa8704; the earlier 29-test/core-build evidence below belongs to that source revision, not a fresh run on this documentation head. Actual module pins remain IG87a796fe9780and Ciliumv0.22.0, not IGdabee7d08. Temporary compatibility checks do not change those pins. Shared accepted-generation publication/reload, native withdrawal integration, Ready, complete worker qualification and kernel qualification remain open. No fresh all-green CI claim is made for this head.Audit contract supersession — 2026-10-30: operational audit is best effort: reload, tracking, resource or structural faults may block audit-only workloads. Audit evaluation must still not intentionally deny audited decisions or evaluator unknown/error results, grant uncertain roles, or override earlier LSM denials. Enforcement remains fail-closed. Precommit refusal retains last-good state and requires truthful failure/NotReady; admission reopens only after safe cleanup. Postcommit recovery resumes the committed generation rather than rolling back. This supersedes any historical wording below that could imply uninterrupted operational-audit admission.
Provider hardening is published: six signed-off commits isolate runtime-evidence context ownership, bound decoding and overlay splitting, expose retained shared-container identity, cover canonical identity rejection, and clarify role/evidence limits. Readonly core builds and 29 explicitly selected ordinary unit tests passed within that validation scope; this is not full runtime or kernel qualification.
Kernel-fixture isolation is published: two further signed-off commits separate default test initialization from the real-kernel fixture and document its explicit opt-in. The kernel test requires Linux, the
sandboxpolicy_kernelbuild tag, andIG_FULL_BACKEND_KERNEL_TEST=1. The tag admits kernel-fixture initialization; it is not an initialization-free compile-only safety switch. No tagged kernel tests were run. Pure-GoFixturePlancoverage remains in the default test build and is not native proof.Dependency and qualification gates remain: the IG pin is still
87a796fe9780. A coherent future shared-runtime IG revision, qualified supported matrix, and downstream/private OTel integration validation remain pending. IGe722e2affpublishes the accepted audit documentation and legacy mocked Go protocol regression, replacing the obsolete strict-admission requirement; this consumer does not yet select that revision. It is not ABI3/shared/native/kernel qualification. Provider hardening does not establish shared-node readiness or introduce helper exemptions.Downstream provider consumption is published: the downstream consumer now selects public node-agent
v0.3.294-0.20261030181130-55faa8704fd9, while IG stays at87a796fe9780and Cilium atv0.22.0. This consumes provider hardening, not the unfinished shared-runtime implementation or a native qualification. Existing exec-event reuse and backend-field contracts in the preserved description below are unchanged.This PR remains OPEN/non-draft; that flag is not a merge-readiness claim. Do not bypass the stacked dependency/merge guard. All merges remain with the maintainer, and the historical implementation/evidence notes below must not be read as qualification of the unfinished shared-node work.
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.