fix(syscall): stop dropping host-process events for consumers that need them - #932
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…ed them SyscallTracer.callback early-returned on containerID=="" before invoking eventCallback at all, not just before reportSyscalls. The justifying comment only reasoned about node-agent's own internal consumer (EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent, which has its own empty-ContainerID drop further downstream, confirmed at pkg/containerwatcher/v2/event_handler_factory.go), so skipping eventCallback here was believed to be a safe no-op for that one caller. But eventCallback is a caller-supplied callback, and other consumers of this tracer do not have an equivalent drop -- specifically, a host/ECS agent that watches non-containerized host processes (which have containerID=="") and wires a callback that does not filter empty-containerID events. For that consumer this early return silently dropped all host-process syscall events. Move the containerID=="" check so it only skips reportSyscalls (which bypasses the generic pipeline and must still guard against it explicitly). eventCallback now runs for every decoded syscall regardless of containerID; node-agent's own EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent still drops the empty-containerID ones itself, so this is a no-op for node-agent's own pipeline. Found by a human reviewer (jnathangreeg) on armosec/private-node-agent#548. Adds TestSyscallTracerCallback covering: empty containerID still reaches eventCallback but not reportSyscalls; non-empty containerID reaches both. Docs-exempt: bug fix restoring event delivery to library consumers; no documented behavior change for node-agent's own pipeline (internal consumer's own empty-ContainerID drop is unchanged).
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In `@pkg/containerwatcher/v2/tracers/syscall_test.go`:
- Around line 48-62: Remove the t.Cleanup release registration from
newSyscallEvent, leaving packet ownership with st.callback so each decoded
syscall packet is released exactly once.
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| // this loop ever ran, silently dropping all host-process syscall events for any consumer | ||
| // whose eventCallback doesn't already filter them -- see | ||
| // armosec/private-node-agent#548's review.) | ||
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Per-syscall fan-out now runs for every unresolvable mntns entry, every 5s, forever.
The fix is right for the shared-library semantics, but "a small amount of extra event construction/dispatch" understates the steady-state cost for node-agent.
The advise_seccomp map is iterated with MapLookupBatch (IG pkg/operators/ebpf/maps.go) — no lookup-and-delete — so every mntns entry is re-emitted in full on every fetch, and runPeekLoop fetches every config.DefaultSyscallPollInterval = 5s. Entries for terminated containers stay in the map after kubemanager drops the container from the collection, so GetContainerID() returns "" for them permanently — exactly the "not (yet, or ever) resolved to a container" case the comment above describes.
Before this change such an entry cost one field read + Release(). Now each one costs a decodeSyscalls pass plus len(syscallList) DeepCopy'd DatasourceEvents pushed through orderedEventQueue → EnrichEvents (which takes ProcessTreeManagerImpl.mutex.RLock per event) → worker pool, only to be dropped by ProcessEvent's if enrichedEvent.ContainerID == "". On a churny node the map fills with stale entries (bounded only by max_entries), each carrying a cumulative bitmap of a few hundred syscalls — 200 stale entries × 150 syscalls ≈ 30k throwaway events every 5s, indefinitely, plus GC churn from events dropped unreleased in enrichAndProcess's full-worker-channel branch (container_watcher.go:481).
Suggest keeping the drop for consumers that don't want these events, but making it explicit rather than implicit: an emitUnresolvedContainerEvents bool on SyscallTracer set from NewSyscallTracer — false for tracer_factory.go's wiring, true for the host/ECS agent. That preserves the bug fix for the consumer that needs it without regressing node-agent.
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Good catch, fixed in 6f492cf: added an explicit emitUnresolvedContainerEvents bool on SyscallTracer, threaded through NewSyscallTracer. tracer_factory.go's own call site now passes false explicitly, keeping node-agent's own steady-state behavior exactly unchanged (verified: zero eventCallback fan-out for containerID=="" there). The host/ECS agent consumer (armosec/private-node-agent) passes true. New table-driven test (TestSyscallTracerCallback) covers all 4 combinations of {empty/non-empty containerID} x {flag false/true}.
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Double release of the same packet. callback() owns the packet and ends with event.Release() → dataSource.Release(*data), which nils v.Data and does ds.dataPool.Put(v). This cleanup then releases the same object again: the element branch is skipped (v.Data already nil) but ds.dataPool.Put(v) runs a second time, leaving one *data queued twice in the pool.
Benign today only because each subtest builds a fresh datasource and never calls NewPacketSingle again — but as soon as a test reuses the datasource for a second packet, two NewPacketSingle calls hand back the same *data and writes through one accessor corrupt the other.
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Same root cause as CodeRabbit's finding above -- fixed together in 6f492cf.
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A fresh synthetic datasource per subtest poisons the global field-accessor cache. DatasourceEvent.getFieldAccessor (pkg/utils/datasource_event.go:152) caches FieldAccessors in a package-level sync.Map keyed by EventType + field name only — not by datasource.
So the first subtest populates the cache with accessors belonging to datasource #1, and the second subtest's GetContainerID()/GetSyscalls() read datasource #2's payload through datasource #1's accessors. It passes only because both are built with the same two fields in the same order, so PayloadIndex coincides.
Add a field here, reorder the AddField calls, or add another test in this package that builds a real syscall DatasourceEvent (per TestSyscallFields the real datasource's fields are mntns_id_raw, syscalls — index 0 is mntns_id_raw, not runtime.containerId) and the accessors will silently read the wrong field instead of failing loudly.
Building the datasource once (package-level or sync.OnceValue) and reusing it across subtests removes the divergence risk.
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Fixed in 6f492cf: the synthetic datasource is now built once via sync.OnceValue (syscallTestDatasource) and reused by every subtest, rather than rebuilt per subtest.
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| // single event.syscall field), so those keep going through the normal event pipeline. | ||
| // eventCallback must run for EVERY decoded syscall regardless of containerID -- unlike |
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Two things about this ten-line replacement comment:
armosec/private-node-agent#548(repeated atsyscall_test.go:64) is a private repo issue in a public repo's source — not resolvable to any outside reader. And the(Fixed: a prior version of this function early-returned...)paragraph is git history, not an explanation of the code in front of you.- It replaced the one line that explained why this loop exists at all: "RuleManager and metrics still need one event per syscall (rule matching keys off a single event.syscall field)". That rationale is now gone, so the next reader has no idea why the batch is fanned out per syscall.
Suggest collapsing to the invariant plus the restored rationale, e.g.:
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| // eventCallback is caller-supplied and must see every decoded syscall: not every consumer | |
| // filters empty containerIDs itself (host processes have containerID==""). | |
| // One event per syscall because rule matching keys off a single event.syscall field. |
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Fixed in 6f492cf: rewrote the comment to restore the per-syscall rationale, removed the private-repo issue reference and the git-history narration, and integrated an explanation of the new emitUnresolvedContainerEvents flag (see reply above) since the code structure changed there anyway.
…ntainerEvents Restoring the eventCallback loop for containerID=="" fixed the shared-library semantics but reintroduced a steady-state cost for node-agent's own consumers: advise_seccomp re-emits every map entry in full on every 5s poll (no lookup-and-delete), so every host process and every stale entry for an already-terminated container was being decoded and fanned out through the whole event pipeline forever, for no benefit to node-agent itself. Add an explicit emitUnresolvedContainerEvents bool to SyscallTracer/ NewSyscallTracer. tracer_factory.go's internal wiring passes false, restoring node-agent's pre-this-PR steady-state behavior exactly; consumers that want host-process events (e.g. the host/ECS agent) pass true. This changes NewSyscallTracer's signature again; the private-node-agent call site update is tracked separately. Also fixes two test bugs found in review of the previous round: - newSyscallEvent's t.Cleanup released the same pooled packet a second time after callback already released it via event.Release(). - Each subtest built a fresh synthetic datasource, which poisoned DatasourceEvent's package-level field-accessor cache (keyed by EventType + field name only, not by datasource) the moment two datasources' schemas ever diverged. The datasource is now built once and reused. And rewrites the comment above the eventCallback loop to state the containerID=="" rationale and the new flag's role instead of narrating git history and referencing a private-repo issue number. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RkqzGWrCDfXSaCYHuZpuQa Docs-exempt: follow-up fix to an already-open, already-reviewed PR; internal tracer wiring/test-only change, and node-agent's own runtime behavior is explicitly unchanged by design (that's the point of the new flag defaulting to false at the only in-repo call site).
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Approving 6f492cfd1. All four findings from my earlier comments are addressed.
Apologies for the delay in confirming, and for the comments themselves: GitHub re-anchored all four to position 1 of their file's hunk, so they render as outdated and point at the wrong lines. Restating them here with correct references so the record is readable.
1. syscall.go:223 (medium) — per-syscall fan-out for unresolvable mount namespaces. FIXED, and with the right mechanism. The emitUnresolvedContainerEvents flag makes the consumer difference explicit instead of one side's assumption silently winning:
tracer_factory.go:108passesfalse, with the reason written down — node-agent's ownEventHandlerFactory.ProcessEventalready drops empty-ContainerID events, so emitting them would only pay the steady-state decode/dispatch/enrich cost for every host process and every staleadvise_seccompentry, on every poll, for nothing.armosec/private-node-agent's host/ECS agent passestrueatpkg/hostwatcher/v1/syscall.go:35, which is what it needs since it watches non-containerized processes precisely because they havecontainerID == "".
It is the only NewSyscallTracer call site in the repo, so nothing was missed.
Event lifecycle is clean — worth stating, because restructuring a path that previously did event.Release(); return is exactly where a double-release or a leak appears. Now: decodeSyscalls empty → Release + return; otherwise fall through to the single Release at the end. Exactly once on every path, including the new containerID == "" && !emitUnresolvedContainerEvents case. And the reportSyscalls guard survived as its own if containerID != "", which is the one place that genuinely needs it since it identifies its subject by containerID.
2. syscall_test.go:50 (low) — double Release in the helper's t.Cleanup. FIXED, and the new comment states the invariant rather than just removing the call.
3. syscall_test.go:40 (low) — utils.fieldCaches keyed by EventType + field name only, so subtest 2 reads subtest 1's accessors. FIXED by documentation. That is a warning rather than a structural fix, which is a fair call at this severity — it stops the next person being surprised when a field is added or reordered.
4. syscall.go:213 (low) — private-repo issue reference from a public repo. FIXED.
One correction to my own finding on that last one: I framed it more strongly than the evidence supported. There are three pre-existing instances elsewhere in this repo (dns.go:30 and dns_retry_test.go:18 cite armosec/private-node-agent#511, cooldownqueue_test.go:64 cites #368), so it is an established convention here, not something this PR introduced.
Verification caveat: I checked this statically. pkg/containerwatcher/v2/tracers does not build on darwin (iouring-go/syscall is excluded), so I could not run the suite on this head. Everything I verified — call sites, flag wiring, Release paths, the reportSyscalls guard, the comment fixes — is statically checkable, but I have not seen the tests go green here.
Note this PR is the blocker for armosec/private-node-agent#548, which pins 6f492cfd1e3a and whose check-fork-pins gate correctly refuses to pass while that commit is unmerged. Merging this unblocks that chain.
Summary
SyscallTracer.callback(pkg/containerwatcher/v2/tracers/syscall.go) early-returned oncontainerID == ""before invokingeventCallbackat all — not just beforereportSyscalls.The justifying comment only reasoned about node-agent's own internal consumer,
EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent(pkg/containerwatcher/v2/event_handler_factory.go), which does have its own empty-ContainerIDdrop further downstream. SkippingeventCallbackentirely here was believed to be a safe no-op optimization for that caller.But
eventCallbackis a caller-supplied callback passed intoNewSyscallTracer, and other consumers of this tracer do not have an equivalent drop. Specifically,armosec/private-node-agent's host/ECS agent watches non-containerized host processes precisely because they havecontainerID == "", and wires its own callback (which does not filter empty-containerID events) aseventCallback. For that consumer, this early return silently and totally dropped all host-process syscall events — they never reached its dedup/metrics gate, rule manager, or OTEL exporter.Found and reported by a human reviewer (jnathangreeg) on
armosec/private-node-agent#548.Fix
Move the
containerID == ""check so it only skips thereportSyscallscall (which bypasses the generic per-event pipeline and must still guard against empty containerIDs explicitly).eventCallbacknow runs for every decoded syscall regardless of containerID.Verified
EventHandlerFactory.ProcessEventstill has its ownif enrichedEvent.ContainerID == "" { return }check at the top, and traced the full internal wiring (NewSyscallTracerintracer_factory.go→createEventCallback→orderedEventQueue.AddEventDirect→PopEvent→ worker pool →eventHandlerFactory.ProcessEvent) to confirm this change is a functional no-op for node-agent's own internal pipeline — only a small amount of extra event construction/dispatch that gets dropped downstream.Test plan
TestSyscallTracerCallbackinpkg/containerwatcher/v2/tracers/syscall_test.gocovering:containerID == ""event now reacheseventCallback(it didn't before)containerID == ""event does NOT triggerreportSyscalls(unchanged)go build ./...go vet ./...go test ./pkg/containerwatcher/v2/tracers/...(pre-existing failures inTestDnsFields/TestNetworkFields/TestSshFieldsare environmental — sandbox lacks eBPF/MEMLOCK privileges — and reproduce identically on unmodifiedmain)🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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