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fix(k8s_storage): discover CSI controller/node pods cluster-wide in K8sCsiTenantScopedCredentialsCheck - #587

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K8sCsiTenantScopedCredentialsCheck only checked pods in kube-system for CSI RBAC violations, so any CSI operator installed elsewhere (Longhorn, Piraeus, Rook-Ceph, etc.) never got inspected and silently passed regardless of its actual RBAC. Switches pod discovery to cluster-wide, filtered by the existing sidecar-image heuristic.
Verified against a live minikube cluster and a new regression test reproducing Longhorn's unrestricted cluster-wide secrets grant — false pass before, correct fail after. No change to pass/fail criteria, only to what pods get inspected.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved Kubernetes CSI tenant credential validation to discover controller and node-plugin components across all namespaces.
    • Correctly recognizes approved Secret namespaces associated with discovered CSI components.
    • Validation now reports failures when pod discovery is unavailable.
    • Enhanced security checks detect overly broad Secret access regardless of component namespace.
  • Tests
    • Added regression coverage for cross-namespace CSI discovery and permission validation.

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CSI tenant credential validation now discovers CSI pods across all namespaces. It permits discovered pod namespaces and configured namespaces during Secret checks. Pod-list failures fail validation. Tests cover CSI pods in longhorn-system.

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CSI credential validation

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Cluster-wide discovery and namespace permissions
isvtest/src/isvtest/validations/k8s_storage.py
The validation uses one all-namespaces pod query, identifies CSI pods by image, adds their namespaces to the permitted Secret namespace set, and fails when discovery fails.
Regression coverage
isvtest/tests/test_k8s_storage.py
Tests mock cluster-wide pod discovery and verify that unrestricted cluster-wide Secret access for CSI pods outside kube-system fails the RBAC check.

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The check now discovers CSI controller and node pods across namespaces, preventing missed RBAC violations without changing pass/fail criteria. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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  participant CSIValidation
  participant kubectl
  participant KubernetesAPI
  CSIValidation->>kubectl: Query pods in all namespaces
  kubectl->>KubernetesAPI: List cluster-wide pods
  KubernetesAPI-->>kubectl: Return pod data
  kubectl-->>CSIValidation: Return CSI pod namespaces
  CSIValidation->>CSIValidation: Validate Secret and RBAC access
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1735-1790: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the discovered Secret namespace path.

This test proves that longhorn-system controller pods reach the RBAC subtest. It does not exercise the new permitted_namespaces behavior. Add a Secret reference in longhorn-system and assert that secrets-not-cross-namespace passes. This will detect a regression where pod discovery works but the discovered namespace is not added to the permitted set.

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In `@isvtest/tests/test_k8s_storage.py` around lines 1735 - 1790, Extend
test_unrestricted_cluster_secret_grant_fails_outside_kube_system with a Secret
reference in longhorn-system, then assert the secrets-not-cross-namespace
outcome is present and passes. Keep the existing RBAC assertions unchanged, and
ensure the fixture exercises discovery of longhorn-system as a permitted
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In `@isvtest/src/isvtest/validations/k8s_storage.py`:
- Around line 1283-1288: Add a PEP 257 docstring to _list_all_pods describing
that it lists pods across all namespaces and returns None when the kubectl
command fails.

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In `@isvtest/tests/test_k8s_storage.py`:
- Around line 1735-1790: Extend
test_unrestricted_cluster_secret_grant_fails_outside_kube_system with a Secret
reference in longhorn-system, then assert the secrets-not-cross-namespace
outcome is present and passes. Keep the existing RBAC assertions unchanged, and
ensure the fixture exercises discovery of longhorn-system as a permitted
namespace.
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Comment thread isvtest/src/isvtest/validations/k8s_storage.py
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K8sCsiTenantScopedCredentialsCheck only inspected pods inside
csi_driver_namespaces (default: ["kube-system"]). Most CSI operators
(Longhorn, Piraeus, Rook-Ceph, ...) install into their own namespace,
not kube-system, so their controller pods went unseen entirely and the
serviceaccount-rbac-scoped subtest silently skipped/passed regardless
of the ServiceAccount's actual RBAC.

Switch pod discovery to cluster-wide (kubectl get pods
--all-namespaces), filtered by the existing sidecar-image heuristic.
csi_driver_namespaces/allowed_workload_namespaces remain as an
allowlist for the secrets-not-cross-namespace subtest, now unioned
with whatever namespaces a CSI pod was actually found in.

Added a regression test reproducing the Longhorn/longhorn-system gap:
against the prior implementation this scenario passed with
serviceaccount-rbac-scoped silently skipped despite an unrestricted
cluster-wide Secret grant on the CSI controller ServiceAccount.

Signed-off-by: Manohar Reddy Arranagu <marranagu@nvidia.com>
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marranagu force-pushed the fix/k8s-csi-tenant-scoped-namespace-detection branch from 726ee4a to fd2eb8b Compare August 18, 2026 18:43
Addresses CodeRabbit review comment.

Signed-off-by: Manohar Reddy Arranagu <marranagu@nvidia.com>
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/ok to test b4114ce

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🕐 Last updated: 2026-08-18 18:54:55 UTC | Commit: b4114ce

The nested _route() in TestK8sCsiTenantScopedCredentialsCheck._router
had its pod-matching branch rewritten for cluster-wide discovery but
never had a docstring. Addresses CodeRabbit docstring-coverage check.

Signed-off-by: Manohar Reddy Arranagu <marranagu@nvidia.com>
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/ok to test 860bfbf

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