fix linters related warnings (kubernetes-sigs#2169)

Signed-off-by: Prajyot Parab <[email protected]>

Author: Prajyot-Parab

.golangci.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ linters:
   - dogsled
   - errcheck
   - errchkjson
-  - execinquery
   - exportloopref
   - gci
   - goconst
@@ -100,10 +99,6 @@ linters-settings:
     allow-unused: false
     allow-leading-space: false
     require-specific: true
-  staticcheck:
-    go: "1.22"
-  stylecheck:
-    go: "1.22"
   gosec:
     excludes:
     - G307 # Deferring unsafe method "Close" on type "\*os.File"
@@ -208,12 +203,13 @@ issues:
     - gocritic
     text: "deferInLoop: Possible resource leak, 'defer' is called in the 'for' loop"
     path: _test\.go
+  exclude-files:
+  - "zz_generated.*\\.go$"
 
 run:
+  go: "1.22"
   timeout: 10m
   build-tags:
   - tools
   - e2e
-  skip-files:
-  - "zz_generated.*\\.go$"
   allow-parallel-runners: true