Upgrade golangci-lint, more linters

Introduces new linters, upgrade golangci-lint to version (v1.63.4)

.golangci.yml

@@ -25,17 +25,32 @@ linters-settings:
       - ^os.Exit$
       - ^panic$
       - ^print(ln)?$
+  varnamelen:
+    max-distance: 12
+    min-name-length: 2
+    ignore-type-assert-ok: true
+    ignore-map-index-ok: true
+    ignore-chan-recv-ok: true
+    ignore-decls:
+      - i int
+      - n int
+      - w io.Writer
+      - r io.Reader
+      - b []byte
 
 linters:
   enable:
     - asciicheck       # Simple linter to check that your code does not contain non-ASCII identifiers
     - bidichk          # Checks for dangerous unicode character sequences
     - bodyclose        # checks whether HTTP response body is closed successfully
+    - containedctx     # containedctx is a linter that detects struct contained context.Context field
     - contextcheck     # check the function whether use a non-inherited context
+    - cyclop           # checks function and package cyclomatic complexity
     - decorder         # check declaration order and count of types, constants, variables and functions
     - dogsled          # Checks assignments with too many blank identifiers (e.g. x, _, _, _, := f())
     - dupl             # Tool for code clone detection
     - durationcheck    # check for two durations multiplied together
+    - err113           # Golang linter to check the errors handling expressions
     - errcheck         # Errcheck is a program for checking for unchecked errors in go programs. These unchecked errors can be critical bugs in some cases
     - errchkjson       # Checks types passed to the json encoding functions. Reports unsupported types and optionally reports occations, where the check for the returned error can be omitted.
     - errname          # Checks that sentinel errors are prefixed with the `Err` and error types are suffixed with the `Error`.
@@ -46,66 +61,64 @@ linters:
     - forcetypeassert  # finds forced type assertions
     - gci              # Gci control golang package import order and make it always deterministic.
     - gochecknoglobals # Checks that no globals are present in Go code
-    - gochecknoinits   # Checks that no init functions are present in Go code
     - gocognit         # Computes and checks the cognitive complexity of functions
     - goconst          # Finds repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant
     - gocritic         # The most opinionated Go source code linter
+    - gocyclo          # Computes and checks the cyclomatic complexity of functions
+    - godot            # Check if comments end in a period
     - godox            # Tool for detection of FIXME, TODO and other comment keywords
-    - err113           # Golang linter to check the errors handling expressions
     - gofmt            # Gofmt checks whether code was gofmt-ed. By default this tool runs with -s option to check for code simplification
     - gofumpt          # Gofumpt checks whether code was gofumpt-ed.
     - goheader         # Checks is file header matches to pattern
     - goimports        # Goimports does everything that gofmt does. Additionally it checks unused imports
     - gomoddirectives  # Manage the use of 'replace', 'retract', and 'excludes' directives in go.mod.
-    - gomodguard       # Allow and block list linter for direct Go module dependencies. This is different from depguard where there are different block types for example version constraints and module recommendations.
     - goprintffuncname # Checks that printf-like functions are named with `f` at the end
     - gosec            # Inspects source code for security problems
     - gosimple         # Linter for Go source code that specializes in simplifying a code
     - govet            # Vet examines Go source code and reports suspicious constructs, such as Printf calls whose arguments do not align with the format string
     - grouper          # An analyzer to analyze expression groups.
     - importas         # Enforces consistent import aliases
     - ineffassign      # Detects when assignments to existing variables are not used
+    - lll              # Reports long lines
+    - maintidx         # maintidx measures the maintainability index of each function.
+    - makezero         # Finds slice declarations with non-zero initial length
     - misspell         # Finds commonly misspelled English words in comments
+    - nakedret         # Finds naked returns in functions greater than a specified function length
+    - nestif           # Reports deeply nested if statements
     - nilerr           # Finds the code that returns nil even if it checks that the error is not nil.
     - nilnil           # Checks that there is no simultaneous return of `nil` error and an invalid value.
+    - nlreturn         # nlreturn checks for a new line before return and branch statements to increase code clarity
     - noctx            # noctx finds sending http request without context.Context
     - predeclared      # find code that shadows one of Go's predeclared identifiers
     - revive           # golint replacement, finds style mistakes
     - staticcheck      # Staticcheck is a go vet on steroids, applying a ton of static analysis checks
     - stylecheck       # Stylecheck is a replacement for golint
     - tagliatelle      # Checks the struct tags.
     - tenv             # tenv is analyzer that detects using os.Setenv instead of t.Setenv since Go1.17
-    - tparallel        # tparallel detects inappropriate usage of t.Parallel() method in your Go test codes
+    - thelper          # thelper detects golang test helpers without t.Helper() call and checks the consistency of test helpers
     - typecheck        # Like the front-end of a Go compiler, parses and type-checks Go code
     - unconvert        # Remove unnecessary type conversions
     - unparam          # Reports unused function parameters
     - unused           # Checks Go code for unused constants, variables, functions and types
+    - varnamelen       # checks that the length of a variable's name matches its scope
     - wastedassign     # wastedassign finds wasted assignment statements
     - whitespace       # Tool for detection of leading and trailing whitespace
   disable:
     - depguard         # Go linter that checks if package imports are in a list of acceptable packages
-    - containedctx     # containedctx is a linter that detects struct contained context.Context field
-    - cyclop           # checks function and package cyclomatic complexity
     - funlen           # Tool for detection of long functions
-    - gocyclo          # Computes and checks the cyclomatic complexity of functions
-    - godot            # Check if comments end in a period
-    - gomnd            # An analyzer to detect magic numbers.
+    - gochecknoinits   # Checks that no init functions are present in Go code
+    - gomodguard       # Allow and block list linter for direct Go module dependencies. This is different from depguard where there are different block types for example version constraints and module recommendations.
+    - interfacebloat   # A linter that checks length of interface.
     - ireturn          # Accept Interfaces, Return Concrete Types
-    - lll              # Reports long lines
-    - maintidx         # maintidx measures the maintainability index of each function.
-    - makezero         # Finds slice declarations with non-zero initial length
-    - nakedret         # Finds naked returns in functions greater than a specified function length
-    - nestif           # Reports deeply nested if statements
-    - nlreturn         # nlreturn checks for a new line before return and branch statements to increase code clarity
+    - mnd              # An analyzer to detect magic numbers
     - nolintlint       # Reports ill-formed or insufficient nolint directives
     - paralleltest     # paralleltest detects missing usage of t.Parallel() method in your Go test
     - prealloc         # Finds slice declarations that could potentially be preallocated
     - promlinter       # Check Prometheus metrics naming via promlint
     - rowserrcheck     # checks whether Err of rows is checked successfully
     - sqlclosecheck    # Checks that sql.Rows and sql.Stmt are closed.
     - testpackage      # linter that makes you use a separate _test package
-    - thelper          # thelper detects golang test helpers without t.Helper() call and checks the consistency of test helpers
-    - varnamelen       # checks that the length of a variable's name matches its scope
+    - tparallel        # tparallel detects inappropriate usage of t.Parallel() method in your Go test codes
     - wrapcheck        # Checks that errors returned from external packages are wrapped
     - wsl              # Whitespace Linter - Forces you to use empty lines!
 

ack_timer.go

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ const (
 	ackTimerClosed
 )
 
-// ackTimer provides the retnransmission timer conforms with RFC 4960 Sec 6.3.1
+// ackTimer provides the retnransmission timer conforms with RFC 4960 Sec 6.3.1.
 type ackTimer struct {
 	timer    *time.Timer
 	observer ackTimerObserver
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ func newAckTimer(observer ackTimerObserver) *ackTimer {
 	t := &ackTimer{observer: observer}
 	t.timer = time.AfterFunc(math.MaxInt64, t.timeout)
 	t.timer.Stop()
+
 	return t
 }
 
@@ -65,11 +66,12 @@ func (t *ackTimer) start() bool {
 	t.state = ackTimerStarted
 	t.pending++
 	t.timer.Reset(ackInterval)
+
 	return true
 }
 
 // stops the timer. this is similar to stop() but subsequent start() call
-// will fail (the timer is no longer usable)
+// will fail (the timer is no longer usable).
 func (t *ackTimer) stop() {
 	t.mutex.Lock()
 	defer t.mutex.Unlock()
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ func (t *ackTimer) stop() {
 }
 
 // closes the timer. this is similar to stop() but subsequent start() call
-// will fail (the timer is no longer usable)
+// will fail (the timer is no longer usable).
 func (t *ackTimer) close() {
 	t.mutex.Lock()
 	defer t.mutex.Unlock()
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ func (t *ackTimer) close() {
 }
 
 // isRunning tests if the timer is running.
-// Debug purpose only
+// Debug purpose only.
 func (t *ackTimer) isRunning() bool {
 	t.mutex.Lock()
 	defer t.mutex.Unlock()