From 0ba42fe487b66e42e2d0603bdf94f2af781a8a1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 16:45:53 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] ci: bump golangci-lint to v2.9.0

Apparently, prealloc got much smarter in this version, so let's disable
it for _test.go files as we're not really interested in
micro-optimizations for the test code.

The rest of its warnings is being fixed by the earlier commits.

Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
---
 .golangci.yml                  | 3 +++
 Makefile                       | 2 +-
 libpod/lock/in_memory_locks.go | 1 -
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index ed1ce1e44b..c474316ae9 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ linters:
       - linters:
           - recvcheck
         path: pkg/k8s.io/
+      - path: _test\.go
+        linters:
+          - prealloc
 
 issues:
   max-issues-per-linter: 0
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0c96f76efe..a6112c01c4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ BUILDTAGS += ${EXTRA_BUILDTAGS}
 # N/B: This value is managed by Renovate, manual changes are
 # possible, as long as they don't disturb the formatting
 # (i.e. DO NOT ADD A 'v' prefix!)
-GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION := 2.6.0
+GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION := 2.9.0
 PYTHON ?= $(shell command -v python3 python|head -n1)
 PKG_MANAGER ?= $(shell command -v dnf yum|head -n1)
 # ~/.local/bin is not in PATH on all systems
diff --git a/libpod/lock/in_memory_locks.go b/libpod/lock/in_memory_locks.go
index 9787d450b7..09a05853b9 100644
--- a/libpod/lock/in_memory_locks.go
+++ b/libpod/lock/in_memory_locks.go
@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ func (m *InMemoryManager) AvailableLocks() (*uint32, error) {
 // Get any locks that are presently being held.
 // Useful for debugging deadlocks.
 func (m *InMemoryManager) LocksHeld() ([]uint32, error) {
-	//nolint:prealloc
 	var locks []uint32
 
 	for _, lock := range m.locks {