Merge pull request #812 from Random-Liu/cherrypick-#808

Erase ambient capabilities.

pkg/server/container_create.go

@@ -372,6 +372,11 @@ func (c *criService) generateContainerSpec(id string, sandboxID string, sandboxP
 				securityContext.GetCapabilities())
 		}
 	}
+	// Clear all ambient capabilities. The implication of non-root + caps
+	// is not clearly defined in Kubernetes.
+	// See https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56374
+	// Keep docker's behavior for now.
+	g.Spec().Process.Capabilities.Ambient = []string{}
 
 	g.SetProcessSelinuxLabel(processLabel)
 	g.SetLinuxMountLabel(mountLabel)

pkg/server/container_create_test.go

@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ func TestContainerCapabilities(t *testing.T) {
 			assert.NotContains(t, spec.Process.Capabilities.Inheritable, exclude)
 			assert.NotContains(t, spec.Process.Capabilities.Permitted, exclude)
 		}
+		assert.Empty(t, spec.Process.Capabilities.Ambient)
 	}
 }