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Summary

  • Scope the audit-exporter container's volume mounts to only the directories it needs
  • Update securityContext to follow current best practices

No functional change to log paths or exporter behaviour.

Test plan

  • TestAuditExporterServiceAccountName passes
  • TestAuditExporterSCCUserMatch passes
  • Verify audit-exporter pods start and forward logs on a staging cluster

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Security Enhancements
    • Hardened the audit exporter with restricted container privileges, dropped capabilities, disabled privilege escalation, and a read-only root filesystem.
    • Limited log access to required API server and audit-log directories.
    • Added controlled temporary writable storage and SELinux labeling.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented broad host log and root filesystem mounts through stricter volume configuration.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage to verify security settings, volume restrictions, and required paths.

Drop privileged mode from the audit-exporter container and scope
hostPath mounts to only the directories actually needed.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Walkthrough

The audit-exporter DaemonSet now uses restricted security settings, scoped read-only host log mounts, and a writable /tmp volume in both manifest sources. Tests validate these settings.

Changes

Audit exporter hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Harden manifests and scope storage
hack/olm-registry/olm-artifacts-template.yaml, hack/pko/clusterpackage.yaml
The audit-exporter disables privilege escalation, drops capabilities, disables privileged mode, uses a read-only root filesystem, and applies container_logwriter_t. It mounts specific API-server and audit-log directories as read-only and uses emptyDir for /tmp.
Validate security and volume contracts
pkg/kube/audit_exporter_template_test.go
The test checks restricted execution, required mounts, temporary storage, DirectoryOrCreate host paths, and rejection of broad /var/log or root mounts.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fb302

The DaemonSet changes narrow volume mounts and update security settings, but the current tests do not verify that /var/log/osd-audit and /tmp are writable, so a regression could leave the exporter unable to write logs while tests still pass. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to strengthen this assertion.

Suggested reviewers: nephomaniac, anispate

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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request adds a standard Go test, not a Ginkgo test. TestAuditExporterSecurityContext has a static name. Its t.Run names use two hardcoded template paths, so they do not vary between…
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds a standard Go unit test, not Ginkgo code. The test reads static YAML fixtures and creates no cluster resources, so BeforeEach/AfterEach and timeout requirements do not appl…
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds TestAuditExporterSecurityContext as a standard Go testing test. It does not add Ginkgo e2e constructs such as It, Describe, Context, or When. The test only read…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds TestAuditExporterSecurityContext as a standard Go testing.T unit test. The actual diff adds no Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When e2e test and contains no mu…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes securityContext and hostPath/emptyDir volume mounts only. The audit-exporter DaemonSet's existing nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/master and wildcard `operator: …
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes two YAML templates and adds TestAuditExporterSecurityContext. The added Go code is inside a Test... function and contains no fmt, log, klog, os.Stdout, suite…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds a standard Go testing test, TestAuditExporterSecurityContext, not a Ginkgo e2e test. The complete diff from origin/master contains no It, Describe, Context, or …
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only Kubernetes templates and a Go validation test. The diff introduces no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage, custom cryptography, or secret/token compa…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed The PR removes privileged: true and adds privileged: false, allowPrivilegeEscalation: false, and capability drop ALL in both audit-exporter DaemonSets. No added hostPID, hostNetwork, `host…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds no logging statements, log fields, credentials, or sensitive-data values. The exporter command and WriteRequestBodies audit-policy setting are unchanged. The DaemonSet ch…
Full details: Stable And Deterministic Test Names

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PASS. The pull request adds a standard Go test, not a Ginkgo test. TestAuditExporterSecurityContext has a static name. Its t.Run names use two hardcoded template paths, so they do not vary between runs and contain no generated suffixes, timestamps, UUIDs, node names, namespaces, or IP addresses. No dynamic Ginkgo title was added in the pull-request diff.

Full details: Test Structure And Quality

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PASS: The pull request adds a standard Go unit test, not Ginkgo code. The test reads static YAML fixtures and creates no cluster resources, so BeforeEach/AfterEach and timeout requirements do not apply. It uses bounded t.Run subtests, follows the existing pkg/kube testing style, and its assertions include diagnostic messages. The security-context and volume checks are related to the single audit-exporter hardening contract, not unrelated behaviors.

Full details: Microshift Test Compatibility

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PASS: The pull request adds TestAuditExporterSecurityContext as a standard Go testing test. It does not add Ginkgo e2e constructs such as It, Describe, Context, or When. The test only reads and parses YAML fixtures; it does not reference MicroShift-unavailable OpenShift APIs, namespaces, or unsupported cluster assumptions. The MicroShift Test Compatibility check is therefore not applicable.

Full details: Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility

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PASS: The pull request adds TestAuditExporterSecurityContext as a standard Go testing.T unit test. The actual diff adds no Ginkgo It, Describe, Context, or When e2e test and contains no multi-node or HA assumptions. The YAML changes do not add tests.

Full details: Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility

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PASS: The pull request changes securityContext and hostPath/emptyDir volume mounts only. The audit-exporter DaemonSet's existing nodeSelector: node-role.kubernetes.io/master and wildcard operator: Exists toleration remain unchanged. The diff introduces no anti-affinity, topology spread, replica, PDB, or new scheduling fields. Therefore, it introduces no topology-aware scheduling constraint covered by this check.

Full details: Ote Binary Stdout Contract

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PASS: The pull request changes two YAML templates and adds TestAuditExporterSecurityContext. The added Go code is inside a Test... function and contains no fmt, log, klog, os.Stdout, suite-setup, init, or TestMain stdout writes. The diff does not modify any binary entry point or process-level hook. An existing fmt.Println in fips.go is outside the pull-request diff and is not caused or activated by these changes.

Full details: Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility

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PASS: The pull request adds a standard Go testing test, TestAuditExporterSecurityContext, not a Ginkgo e2e test. The complete diff from origin/master contains no It, Describe, Context, or When test additions. The new test parses local YAML fixtures and performs no IP parsing, network connections, image pulls, or external URL access.

Full details: No-Weak-Crypto

Explanation

PASS — The pull request changes only Kubernetes templates and a Go validation test. The diff introduces no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB usage, custom cryptography, or secret/token comparisons. The sha256 image digests are not SHA1 usage.

Full details: Container-Privileges

Explanation

The PR removes privileged: true and adds privileged: false, allowPrivilegeEscalation: false, and capability drop ALL in both audit-exporter DaemonSets. No added hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, or SYS_ADMIN capability exists. runAsUser: 0 and the SCC’s allowPrivilegeEscalation: true were present in the base revision and remain unchanged, so they are not PR-introduced failures.

Full details: No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs

Explanation

PASS: The pull request adds no logging statements, log fields, credentials, or sensitive-data values. The exporter command and WriteRequestBodies audit-policy setting are unchanged. The DaemonSet changes replace the pre-existing broad /var/log host mount with narrower API-server and audit-log mounts, which reduces log exposure rather than introducing new sensitive logging. The added test reports only static mount and security-context values.

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In `@hack/olm-registry/olm-artifacts-template.yaml`:
- Around line 1083-1086: Update the audit-exporter securityContext in
hack/olm-registry/olm-artifacts-template.yaml lines 1083-1086 and
hack/pko/clusterpackage.yaml lines 838-841: remove runAsUser: 0 and set
runAsNonRoot: true in both manifest sources.
- Around line 1100-1101: Mark the osd-audit-logs volume mount read-only in both
hack/olm-registry/olm-artifacts-template.yaml lines 1100-1101 and
hack/pko/clusterpackage.yaml lines 855-856 by adding readOnly: true to each
/var/log/osd-audit mount.
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@aliceh aliceh changed the title Tighten audit-exporter DaemonSet volume mounts and securityContext Tighten audit-exporter DaemonSet volume mounts Aug 21, 2026
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Can you please add some e2e tests exercising the various changes in the volume mounts?

Validates that the audit-exporter DaemonSet templates:
- Use scoped hostPath volumes for each log directory
- Mark input log mounts as readOnly
- Do not mount the entire /var/log tree
- Set restrictive securityContext (non-privileged, drop ALL caps, readOnlyRootFilesystem)
- Include /tmp emptyDir for scratch space

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Done — pushed fb30231 with TestAuditExporterSecurityContext covering:

  • Volume mount paths are scoped (individual log dirs, not /var/log)
  • Input log mounts are readOnly: true
  • securityContext is restrictive (non-privileged, drop ALL caps, readOnlyRootFilesystem)
  • /tmp emptyDir is present for scratch space
  • No broad /var/log or / hostPath volumes exist

Tests validate both hack/olm-registry/olm-artifacts-template.yaml and hack/pko/clusterpackage.yaml.

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pkg/kube/audit_exporter_template_test.go (1)

116-147: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the template loading logic into a helper.

Lines 117-147 duplicate lines 59-89 of TestAuditExporterServiceAccountName exactly. A future change to the placeholder regexp or the template file list must be applied twice. Extract one helper that returns the parsed DaemonSets for a template path, and call it from both tests.

♻️ Proposed helper
func loadAuditExporterDaemonSets(t *testing.T, templateFile string) []*appsv1.DaemonSet {
	t.Helper()
	templateParamRe := regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{\{[^}]+\}\}`)

	path := filepath.Join("..", "..", templateFile)
	raw, err := os.ReadFile(path) // `#nosec` G304 -- path is a hardcoded test fixture
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("failed to read template %s: %v", templateFile, err)
	}

	jsonBytes, err := k8syaml.ToJSON(templateParamRe.ReplaceAll(raw, []byte(`"__PLACEHOLDER__"`)))
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("failed to convert YAML to JSON: %v", err)
	}

	var parsed any
	if err := json.Unmarshal(jsonBytes, &parsed); err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("failed to parse template: %v", err)
	}

	daemonsets := findAuditExporterDaemonSets(t, parsed)
	if len(daemonsets) == 0 {
		t.Fatalf("no audit-exporter DaemonSet found in %s", templateFile)
	}
	return daemonsets
}
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In `@pkg/kube/audit_exporter_template_test.go` around lines 116 - 147, Extract the
shared template-reading, placeholder replacement, YAML/JSON parsing, and
DaemonSet discovery logic from TestAuditExporterSecurityContext and
TestAuditExporterServiceAccountName into a loadAuditExporterDaemonSets helper.
Have the helper accept testing.T and templateFile, mark itself with t.Helper(),
retain the existing failure checks, and update both tests to call it while
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In `@pkg/kube/audit_exporter_template_test.go`:
- Around line 191-196: Update the mount assertions in the audit exporter
template test to validate both presence and writability: assert that
mountPaths["/var/log/osd-audit"] and mountPaths["/tmp"] exist with readOnly set
to false, while preserving the existing missing-mount error behavior.

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In `@pkg/kube/audit_exporter_template_test.go`:
- Around line 116-147: Extract the shared template-reading, placeholder
replacement, YAML/JSON parsing, and DaemonSet discovery logic from
TestAuditExporterSecurityContext and TestAuditExporterServiceAccountName into a
loadAuditExporterDaemonSets helper. Have the helper accept testing.T and
templateFile, mark itself with t.Helper(), retain the existing failure checks,
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if _, ok := mountPaths["/var/log/osd-audit"]; !ok {
t.Error("missing writable mount /var/log/osd-audit")
}
if _, ok := mountPaths["/tmp"]; !ok {
t.Error("missing /tmp mount (needed for readOnlyRootFilesystem)")
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the writable mounts are not read-only.

mountPaths stores the readOnly value, but these two checks only test key presence. If someone sets readOnly: true on /var/log/osd-audit or /tmp, the test still passes while the exporter fails to write its audit log and readOnlyRootFilesystem: true leaves no writable scratch directory. Assert the value.

🐛 Proposed fix
-				if _, ok := mountPaths["/var/log/osd-audit"]; !ok {
-					t.Error("missing writable mount /var/log/osd-audit")
-				}
-				if _, ok := mountPaths["/tmp"]; !ok {
-					t.Error("missing /tmp mount (needed for readOnlyRootFilesystem)")
-				}
+				for _, m := range []string{"/var/log/osd-audit", "/tmp"} {
+					ro, ok := mountPaths[m]
+					if !ok {
+						t.Errorf("missing writable mount %s", m)
+					} else if ro {
+						t.Errorf("mount %s must be writable, got readOnly=true", m)
+					}
+				}
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if _, ok := mountPaths["/var/log/osd-audit"]; !ok {
t.Error("missing writable mount /var/log/osd-audit")
}
if _, ok := mountPaths["/tmp"]; !ok {
t.Error("missing /tmp mount (needed for readOnlyRootFilesystem)")
}
for _, m := range []string{"/var/log/osd-audit", "/tmp"} {
ro, ok := mountPaths[m]
if !ok {
t.Errorf("missing writable mount %s", m)
} else if ro {
t.Errorf("mount %s must be writable, got readOnly=true", m)
}
}
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In `@pkg/kube/audit_exporter_template_test.go` around lines 191 - 196, Update the
mount assertions in the audit exporter template test to validate both presence
and writability: assert that mountPaths["/var/log/osd-audit"] and
mountPaths["/tmp"] exist with readOnly set to false, while preserving the
existing missing-mount error behavior.

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