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Description

Adds a new seccomp-profile template and a no-seccomp-profile built-in check that flag containers running without a seccomp profile.

Seccomp is one of the standard container isolation controls: the Pod Security Standards require seccompProfile.type to be RuntimeDefault or Localhost for the Restricted profile, and the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark recommends running containers with a seccomp profile. Despite this, kube-linter has no check for a missing seccomp profile today, while peer linters (kubeaudit, Polaris, Checkov) all ship one.

The check flags any container — regular, init, or ephemeral — whose effective seccomp profile does not confine it:

• The container-level securityContext.seccompProfile takes precedence over the pod-level one, mirroring how Kubernetes resolves these fields. A container is compliant if either level sets a profile of type RuntimeDefault or Localhost.
• An explicit Unconfined profile does not count as having a profile, since it applies no syscall filtering (the same treatment kubeaudit and Checkov give it).

Following the precedent of other opt-in checks (for example no-image-digest), the new check is not enabled by default.

Changes

• New template pkg/templates/seccompprofile (key seccomp-profile), registered in pkg/templates/all, with generated params boilerplate (no parameters) and unit tests covering: no profile anywhere, empty securityContext, empty profile type, explicit Unconfined at container and pod level, container- and pod-level RuntimeDefault/Localhost compliance, container-over-pod precedence, and init/ephemeral containers (including pod-level coverage of them).
• New built-in check pkg/builtinchecks/yamls/no-seccomp-profile.yaml.
• New end-to-end fixture tests/checks/no-seccomp-profile.yml and a matching no-seccomp-profile test in e2etests/bats-tests.sh (pod-level RuntimeDefault and container-level Localhost objects do not fire; objects with no profile in a Deployment and a DeploymentConfig do).
• Regenerated docs/generated/checks.md and docs/generated/templates.md (Enabled by default: No).

How I tested

• go test ./pkg/templates/seccompprofile/... ./pkg/builtinchecks/... — pass.
• go test ./pkg/templates/... ./pkg/builtinchecks/... ./internal/defaultchecks/... — pass.
• e2etests/check-bats-tests.sh (verifies the checks list output matches the bats test list) — pass.
• Ran the bats test for the new check specifically (bats --filter no-seccomp-profile e2etests/bats-tests.sh) against the freshly built binary — pass.
• Manual runs of the built binary:
  • Manifest with no seccomp anywhere: fires once per container, including the init container.
  • Manifest with only a pod-level RuntimeDefault profile: no findings.
  • Manifest with only a container-level Localhost profile: no findings.
  • Manifest with a container-level Unconfined profile: fires.

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📝 Summary

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• New Features
  • Added a built-in check that reports containers in deployment workloads without an effective seccomp profile, including regular, init, and ephemeral containers.
  • The check recognizes profiles set at either the container or pod level. A container-level profile takes precedence; empty profiles and Unconfined are not accepted.
  • The check recommends RuntimeDefault or Localhost as valid profile types.

The change adds and registers a built-in seccomp-profile check for deployment-like workloads. The check reports containers without an effective seccomp profile. Unit tests and end-to-end tests cover configured and missing profiles.

Changes: Seccomp profile check

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Check contract and registration pkg/builtinchecks/yamls/no-seccomp-profile.yaml, pkg/templates/seccompprofile/internal/params/*, pkg/templates/all/all.go	Adds check metadata, empty template parameters and parameter parsing functions, and registers the template.
Profile evaluation and unit tests pkg/templates/seccompprofile/template.go, pkg/templates/seccompprofile/template_test.go	Checks regular, init, and ephemeral containers. A container-level profile takes precedence over the pod-level profile. Empty profile types and Unconfined do not count as set. Tests cover these cases and RuntimeDefault and Localhost.
Fixtures and end-to-end validation tests/checks/no-seccomp-profile.yml, e2etests/bats-tests.sh	Adds Deployment and DeploymentConfig fixtures with and without profiles. The end-to-end test expects two missing-profile reports.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Low · up to 1e61c

The opt-in check can miss invalid seccomp configurations; whitelist supported profile types before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surv…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding the no-seccomp-profile check.
Description check		The description directly explains the new seccomp-profile template, built-in check, coverage, tests, and opt-in behavior.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 8 functions across 6 files.

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Minor · Whitelist the supported profile types. · template.go:35-39

pkg/templates/seccompprofile/template.go:35-39
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Whitelist the supported profile types.

hasSeccompProfile returns true for unknown non-empty types and for Localhost without LocalhostProfile. The linter decodes these values into supported workload objects without API validation, so the check can miss invalid profiles instead of reporting them.

Suggested fix

 return profile != nil &&
-    profile.Type != "" &&
-    profile.Type != v1.SeccompProfileTypeUnconfined
+    (profile.Type == v1.SeccompProfileTypeRuntimeDefault ||
+        (profile.Type == v1.SeccompProfileTypeLocalhost &&
+            profile.LocalhostProfile != nil &&
+            *profile.LocalhostProfile != ""))

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Review comment at @pkg/templates/seccompprofile/template.go around lines 35 -
39:
Update hasSeccompProfile to return true only for RuntimeDefault or Localhost
with a non-nil, non-empty LocalhostProfile; treat unknown, empty, and Unconfined
types as unsupported.

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Review comments at @pkg/templates/seccompprofile/template.go:
- Around line 35-39: Update hasSeccompProfile to return true only for
RuntimeDefault or Localhost with a non-nil, non-empty LocalhostProfile; treat
unknown, empty, and Unconfined types as unsupported.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 65.30612% with 17 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 31.92%. Comparing base (dbd7529) to head (1e61c07).
⚠️ Report is 369 commits behind head on main.

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pkg/templates/seccompprofile/template.go	94.11%	1 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️

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