Honour continuousScanning.matchingRules.namespaces - #405
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MatchingRules.Namespaces is unmarshalled and then dropped. LoadGVRs
reads only .APIResources, and LoadGVRs was the whole TargetLoader
interface, so the namespace list had nowhere to go. NewDynamicWatch
hardcoded Namespace(""), so continuous scanning watched every GVR
cluster-wide no matter what was configured.
The Helm chart ships a namespaces list by default and documents it as
working, so this reads as namespace scoping that silently does nothing.
The only namespace filtering that actually happened is cfg.SkipNamespace,
which is the unrelated global exclude list.
Add LoadNamespaces to the interface, thread it into the pool, and build
one watch per GVR per namespace. Cluster-scoped resources ignore the
namespace, as before. An empty list still means every namespace, so a
rule set that omits the field behaves exactly as it does today.
Signed-off-by: Arpit Jain <arpitjain099@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughContinuous scanning now loads namespaces from matching rules and applies them to dynamic and self-healing watches. Empty namespaces preserve cluster-wide behavior. Cluster-scoped resources continue to ignore namespaces. ChangesNamespace scoping
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Cluster-scoped resources can currently receive duplicate watches when multiple namespaces are configured, causing repeated continuous scans and redundant processing. The PR is not merge-ready until cluster-scoped resources use a single watch or this behavior is explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant listen
participant targetLoader
participant NewWatchPool
participant NewDynamicWatch
listen->>targetLoader: LoadNamespaces(ctx)
targetLoader-->>listen: configured namespaces
listen->>NewWatchPool: pass GVRs and namespaces
NewWatchPool->>NewDynamicWatch: create watch for each GVR and namespace
NewDynamicWatch-->>NewWatchPool: namespace-scoped or cluster-wide watch
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In `@continuousscanning/watchbuilder.go`:
- Around line 130-134: Update the watch construction loop around
NewSelfHealingWatch so cluster-scoped GVRs iterate over []string{""} and create
exactly one watch, while namespaced GVRs continue using the configured
namespaces. Extend TestNewWatchPoolNamespaces with a cluster-scoped case such as
ClusterRole to verify this behavior.
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| for idx := range gvrs { | ||
| gvr := gvrs[idx] | ||
| selfHealingWatch := NewSelfHealingWatch(client, gvr, opts) | ||
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| watches = append(watches, NewSelfHealingWatch(client, gvr, namespace, opts)) | ||
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Create one watch for each cluster-scoped GVR.
Lines 130-134 create one watch per configured namespace for every GVR. For a cluster-scoped GVR, NewDynamicWatch ignores namespace, so each watch is cluster-wide and emits the same events. This duplicates continuous scans when more than one namespace is configured.
Use []string{""} for a cluster-scoped GVR. Add a ClusterRole or equivalent cluster-scoped case to TestNewWatchPoolNamespaces.
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for idx := range gvrs {
gvr := gvrs[idx]
- for _, namespace := range namespaces {
+ watchNamespaces := namespaces
+ if !k8sinterface.IsNamespaceScope(&gvr) {
+ watchNamespaces = []string{""}
+ }
+ for _, namespace := range watchNamespaces {
watches = append(watches, NewSelfHealingWatch(client, gvr, namespace, opts))
}
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| for idx := range gvrs { | |
| gvr := gvrs[idx] | |
| selfHealingWatch := NewSelfHealingWatch(client, gvr, opts) | |
| watches[idx] = selfHealingWatch | |
| for _, namespace := range namespaces { | |
| watches = append(watches, NewSelfHealingWatch(client, gvr, namespace, opts)) | |
| } | |
| for idx := range gvrs { | |
| gvr := gvrs[idx] | |
| watchNamespaces := namespaces | |
| if !k8sinterface.IsNamespaceScope(&gvr) { | |
| watchNamespaces = []string{""} | |
| } | |
| for _, namespace := range watchNamespaces { | |
| watches = append(watches, NewSelfHealingWatch(client, gvr, namespace, opts)) | |
| } |
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In `@continuousscanning/watchbuilder.go` around lines 130 - 134, Update the watch
construction loop around NewSelfHealingWatch so cluster-scoped GVRs iterate over
[]string{""} and create exactly one watch, while namespaced GVRs continue using
the configured namespaces. Extend TestNewWatchPoolNamespaces with a
cluster-scoped case such as ClusterRole to verify this behavior.
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Solid fix for the underlying issue (#397) — the loader/service/watchbuilder wiring and the empty-namespaces-means-all-namespaces fallback all look right, and the new tests cover the intended fan-out.
One blocker before merge: cluster-scoped resources get a duplicate watch per configured namespace (see inline comment on watchbuilder.go), since the per-namespace fan-out in NewWatchPool doesn't special-case IsNamespaceScope. That means duplicate events into the scan channel whenever a matching-rule set mixes cluster-scoped and namespace-scoped resources with a non-empty namespaces list — plausible given the shipped Helm defaults. CodeRabbit's automated review flagged the same thing independently.
Not requesting changes beyond that — will re-review once the fan-out is scoped to namespaced GVRs only (or namespaces default to [""] per-GVR rather than globally) and a cluster-scoped case is added to TestNewWatchPoolNamespaces.
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Blocker: this fans out one watch per (GVR, namespace) pair unconditionally, including for cluster-scoped GVRs. NewDynamicWatch/IsNamespaceScope correctly ignores namespace for a cluster-scoped resource, but that just means the same cluster-wide watch gets created once per configured namespace — e.g. with namespaces: [default, kube-system] and a cluster-scoped resource in APIResources (nodes, clusterroles, etc.), you get 2 identical SelfHealingWatches both streaming every event for that resource into the same channel. That's duplicate events feeding the scanner, not just wasted watches.
Fix: skip the per-namespace fan-out for cluster-scoped GVRs and create exactly one watch for them (e.g. check k8sinterface.IsNamespaceScope(&gvr) here, or default namespaces to [""] per-GVR instead of once globally). TestNewWatchPoolNamespaces only uses namespaced GVRs (deployments, pods), so it doesn't catch this — worth adding a cluster-scoped case (e.g. clusterroles) asserting exactly one watch regardless of how many namespaces are configured.
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Closes #397.
MatchingRules.Namespacesis declared and unmarshalled (continuousscanning/loader.go:24) and then never read.LoadGVRstakes.APIResourcesand nothing else, andLoadGVRswas the entireTargetLoaderinterface, so the namespace list had nowhere to go.NewDynamicWatchthen hardcodedNamespace(""), so continuous scanning watched every GVR across the whole cluster regardless of what was configured.That matters because the Helm chart ships a
namespaceslist in its defaults and documents it as functional:so it reads as namespace scoping that quietly does nothing. The only namespace filtering that actually happened is
cfg.SkipNamespaceinservice.go:47, which is the unrelated global exclude list.The change adds
LoadNamespacestoTargetLoader, threads it fromservice.listenintoNewWatchPool, and builds one watch per GVR per namespace. Two things kept deliberately unchanged:k8sinterface.IsNamespaceScopebranch, since there is nothing to scope.no namespaces keeps one watch per gvrtest pins.Tests:
TestNewWatchPoolNamespacescovers both the empty case and the fan-out (2 GVRs by 2 namespaces gives 4 watches, one per pair),TestNewDynamicWatchgains a case asserting the namespace reaches the recorded watch action on the fake client, andTestTargetLoaderLoadNamespacescovers the loader in both shapes.assertWatchActionnow checks the namespace as well as the GVR, which is what makes the first of those meaningful.go build ./continuousscanning/...,go vet ./continuousscanning/...andgo test ./continuousscanning/...are clean. A whole-repogo build ./...does not complete on macOS:inspektor-gadget/pkg/utils/hostis Linux-only and excluded by build constraints here. That is pre-existing and unrelated to this change, but it does mean I have not built the packages that depend on it, so CI is the real check for those.Summary by CodeRabbit