ginkgolinter: false positive with Eventually(func(g Gomega){})

[Luap99]

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Description of the problem

After the update to v1.64.2 I See false positives from the ginkgolinter about something like this

Eventually(func(g Gomega) {
	...
}).WithTimeout(time.Second).Should(Succeed())

per ginkgo docs this is valid and looking at ginkgolinter upstream this should be allowed
https://github.com/nunnatsa/ginkgolinter?tab=readme-ov-file#prevent-wrong-actual-values-with-the-succeed-matcher-bug

Running ginkgolinter directly with ginkgolinter ./... does not produce this error so I think this is something with the golangci-lint integration here that is triggering the issue.

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version 1.64.2 built with go1.24.0 from 1dae906b on 2025-02-11T21:44:55Z

Configuration

$ golangci-lint run -E ginkgolinter

Go environment

$ go version && go env
go version go1.22.10 linux/amd64
GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='amd64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/pholzing/.cache/go-build'
GOENV='/home/pholzing/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='linux'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/home/pholzing/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='linux'
GOPATH='/home/pholzing/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='direct'
GOROOT='/usr/lib/golang'
GOSUMDB='off'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='local'
GOTOOLDIR='/usr/lib/golang/pkg/tool/linux_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.22.10'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOAMD64='v1'
AR='ar'
CC='gcc'
CXX='g++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/home/pholzing/CODE/test/go.mod'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build1629350348=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint cache clean
$ golangci-lint run -v
INFO golangci-lint has version 1.64.2 built with go1.24.0 from 1dae906b on 2025-02-11T21:44:55Z 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /home/pholzing/CODE/test /home/pholzing/CODE /home/pholzing /home /] 
INFO [goenv] Read go env for 1.797459ms: map[string]string{"GOCACHE":"/home/pholzing/.cache/go-build", "GOROOT":"/usr/lib/golang"} 
INFO [lintersdb] Active 7 linters: [errcheck ginkgolinter gosimple govet ineffassign staticcheck unused] 
INFO [loader] Go packages loading at mode 8767 (types_sizes|deps|imports|name|compiled_files|exports_file|files) took 81.159661ms 
INFO [runner/filename_unadjuster] Pre-built 0 adjustments in 157.205µs 
INFO [linters_context/goanalysis] analyzers took 10.89424182s with top 10 stages: buildir: 9.182147313s, inspect: 566.134956ms, printf: 246.549697ms, fact_deprecated: 210.963565ms, ctrlflow: 199.736962ms, fact_purity: 134.388019ms, SA5012: 120.647631ms, nilness: 113.740309ms, typedness: 84.086307ms, tokenfileanalyzer: 30.456012ms 
INFO [runner] Processors filtering stat (in/out): path_shortener: 1/1, nolint_filter: 1/1, filename_unadjuster: 1/1, path_relativity: 1/1, skip_files: 1/1, identifier_marker: 1/1, uniq_by_line: 1/1, max_from_linter: 1/1, source_code: 1/1, skip_dirs: 1/1, path_prettifier: 1/1, sort_results: 1/1, diff: 1/1, cgo: 1/1, exclusion_paths: 1/1, generated_file_filter: 1/1, exclusion_rules: 1/1, max_per_file_from_linter: 1/1, max_same_issues: 1/1, severity-rules: 1/1, path_absoluter: 1/1, invalid_issue: 1/1, fixer: 1/1 
INFO [runner] processing took 180.764µs with stages: nolint_filter: 85.037µs, exclusion_rules: 49.85µs, generated_file_filter: 17.652µs, source_code: 12.949µs, skip_dirs: 6.063µs, uniq_by_line: 1.241µs, path_relativity: 1.122µs, max_same_issues: 807ns, max_from_linter: 688ns, cgo: 687ns, path_shortener: 658ns, sort_results: 570ns, invalid_issue: 463ns, identifier_marker: 447ns, path_absoluter: 417ns, exclusion_paths: 387ns, filename_unadjuster: 378ns, fixer: 345ns, max_per_file_from_linter: 285ns, path_prettifier: 274ns, diff: 201ns, skip_files: 167ns, severity-rules: 76ns 
INFO [runner] linters took 2.527715867s with stages: goanalysis_metalinter: 2.527488805s 
main_test.go:19:3: ginkgo-linter: Success matcher only support a single error value, or function with Gomega as its first parameter (ginkgolinter)
		Eventually(func(g Gomega) {
		^
INFO File cache stats: 1 entries of total size 360B 
INFO Memory: 28 samples, avg is 669.4MB, max is 1159.0MB 
INFO Execution took 2.611434894s 

A minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository

package main_test

import (
	"testing"
	"time"

	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
)

func TestBooks(t *testing.T) {
	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)
	RunSpecs(t, "t")
}

var _ = Describe("t", func() {

	It("t", func() {
		Eventually(func(g Gomega) {
			g.Expect("abc").To(Equal("abc"))
		}).WithTimeout(time.Second).Should(Succeed())
	})

})

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[boring-cyborg]

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[danail-branekov]

We are seeing the same failure with our codebase: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/korifi/tree/55b4d9219d221491330a9292ed6f31cc152bb89f

We have seen no issues with the same code with golangci-lint 1.63.4. As @Luap99 observed, just running the ginkgo linter succeeds.

[ldez]

I'm investigating but I observed that modifying the function signature seems to "fix" the problem

package main_test

import (
	"testing"
	"time"

	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
)

func TestBooks(t *testing.T) {
	RegisterFailHandler(Fail)
	RunSpecs(t, "t")
}

var _ = Describe("t", func() {

	It("t", func() {
		Eventually(func(g Gomega) error {
			g.Expect("abc").To(Equal("abc"))
			return nil
		}).WithTimeout(time.Second).Should(Succeed())
	})

})

[ldez]

This is ginkgolinter problem: if I modify the min go version of ginkgolinter to go1.23.0 I have the same behavior:

$ ginkgolinter ./...                  
/home/ldez/sources/golangci/sandbox/foo_test.go:19:3: ginkgo-linter: Success matcher only support a single error value, or function with Gomega as its first parameter

ping @nunnatsa

[nunnatsa]

Thanks you all! I noticed the same issue. It doesn't happen when running ginkgolinter cli directly, or with the previous version of golangci-lint, even though the ginkgolinter version was not changed.

@ldez - not sure what you mean by modify the min go version of ginkgolinter to go1.23.0

[nunnatsa]

OK, I locally bumped golang in ginkgolinter to 1.23 - and I can see the error in my tests. looking

[nunnatsa]

Just released ginkgolinter v0.19.0 with a fix to this issue: https://github.com/nunnatsa/ginkgolinter/releases/tag/v0.19.0