update linter, and fix linting error (#1165)

#1154 seems to have broken the linting somehow, this PR aims to fix it

Signed-off-by: Eitan Yarmush <[email protected]>

Author: EItanya

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: golangci-lint
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v9
         with:
-          version: v2.6.2
+          version: v2.7.2
           working-directory: go
 
   python-test:

go/Makefile

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ CONTROLLER_TOOLS_VERSION ?= v0.19.0
 ENVTEST_VERSION ?= $(shell go list -m -f "{{ .Version }}" sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime | awk -F'[v.]' '{printf "release-%d.%d", $$2, $$3}')
 #ENVTEST_K8S_VERSION is the version of Kubernetes to use for setting up ENVTEST binaries (i.e. 1.31)
 ENVTEST_K8S_VERSION ?= $(shell go list -m -f "{{ .Version }}" k8s.io/api | awk -F'[v.]' '{printf "1.%d", $$3}')
-GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION ?= v2.5.0
+GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION ?= v2.7.2
 
 .PHONY: controller-gen
 controller-gen: $(CONTROLLER_GEN) ## Download controller-gen locally if necessary.