This PR adds `gosec` linter with the following checks disabled:
- G102: Bind to all interfaces
- G107: Url provided to HTTP request as taint input
- G112: Potential slowloris attack
- G114: Use of net/http serve function that has no support for setting timeouts
- G204: Audit use of command execution
- G401: Detect the usage of DES, RC4, MD5 or SHA1
- G402: Look for bad TLS connection settings
- G404: Insecure random number source (rand)
- G501: Import blocklist: crypto/md5
- G505: Import blocklist: crypto/sha1
We have complaints related to the checks above. They have to be addressed separately.
* Add gocritic linter
`gocritic` provides diagnostics that check for bugs, performance, and style issues
We disable the following checks:
- commentFormatting
- captLocal
- deprecatedComment
This PR contains many `//nolint:gocritic` to disable `appendAssign`.
- dupword checks for duplicate words in the source code
- durationcheck checks for two durations multiplied together
- forbidigo forbids identifiers
- mirror reports wrong mirror patterns of bytes/strings usage
- misspell finds commonly misspelled English words in comments
- predeclared finds code that shadows one of Go's predeclared identifiers
- thelper detects Go test helpers without t.Helper() call and checks the consistency of test helpers
This PR showcases the implementation of additional linter rules. I've updated the golangci-lint GitHub Actions to the latest available version. This update makes sure that the tool works the same way locally - assuming being updated regularly - and with the GitHub Actions.
I've also taken care of keeping all the GitHub Actions up to date, which helps our code stay current. But there's one part, goreleaser that's a bit tricky to test on our computers. So, it's important to take a close look at that.
To make it easier to understand what I've done, I've made separate changes for each thing that the new linters found. This should help the people reviewing the changes see what's going on more clearly. Some of the changes might not be obvious at first glance.
Things to consider for the future
CI runs on Ubuntu so the static analysis only happens for Linux. Consider running it for the rest: Darwin, Windows
