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Drop the lint-guard shell scanner, keep the Dockerfile.lint checks (closes #121)
The guard test in cmd/vaultik/lintdocker_test.go tried to prove that no script runs the linter outside the container by parsing shell scripts with a hand-written scanner. Four reviews each found another spelling it missed; such a parser cannot be complete, and nobody could follow it in one reading.

The scanner, its helpers and their tests are deleted. The plain Dockerfile.lint assertions stay: the linter image is pinned by digest, config verify runs before run, and the per-run value reaches both steps. TODO.md no longer claims a test proves the property; script/lint is the only lint entry point, and keeping it so is a review matter.

Judgement call: this drops a guard two reviewers asked to harden.

model: claude-opus-4-8 (implementation, review); claude-fable-5-1 (decision, merge)
2026-09-21 20:41:33 +02:00

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package main_test
import (
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)
// This file guards the shape of the lint gate. Every property asserted
// here is one whose loss is SILENT: the build still exits 0, the gate
// still looks green, and nothing was linted or tested.
//
// The gate is a build step. script/lint builds Dockerfile.lint, which
// runs golangci-lint as a RUN instruction, so a successful build is a
// clean lint. BuildKit will happily replay that RUN from cache on an
// unchanged tree in well under a second, which is why the check layers
// are keyed on a CHECK_EPOCH build arg that the calling script
// regenerates per invocation, and why an empty value is a hard error
// rather than a stable cache key.
//
// These are parses rather than invocations. Shelling out to docker from
// the test suite would nest a build inside `make test`, which itself
// runs inside a build in CI. The one property a parse cannot establish
// -- that a real finding actually fails the build -- is verified by
// hand against a deliberately broken tree, recorded on the pull
// request.
//
// One property is deliberately NOT tested here: that no script runs the
// linter on the host. script/lint is the only lint entry point, and it
// runs golangci-lint only inside the container; keeping it that way is a
// review matter, not something a test in this file establishes.
// The files under guard, relative to the repository root.
const (
lintDockerfile = "Dockerfile.lint"
productDockerfile = "Dockerfile"
lintScript = "script/lint"
cibuildScript = "script/cibuild"
)
// linterBinary is the linter's command name, used to locate the
// config-verify and lint steps in Dockerfile.lint.
const linterBinary = "golangci-lint"
// checkEpochARG is the declaration, with no default value. A default
// would satisfy the non-empty guard with a constant, and a constant is
// a stable cache key: the checks would be replayed from cache forever
// after the first build.
const checkEpochARG = "ARG CHECK_EPOCH"
// checkEpochGuard is what turns a build that omits --build-arg into a
// loud failure instead of a quiet green. Failed steps are never cached,
// so it fires on every such invocation rather than once.
const checkEpochGuard = `RUN [ -n "$CHECK_EPOCH" ] || exit 1`
// freshEpoch is the epoch computation the calling scripts must use, as
// a bare assignment on its own line. Inline in an argument, a failing
// `date` would not abort under `set -eu`; CHECK_EPOCH would become the
// empty string, and the guard above would be the only thing standing
// between that and a permanently cached green. `$$` is required because
// `date +%s` is second-granular and busybox silently drops `%N`, so
// without the pid two concurrent runs in one second can collide.
const freshEpoch = `epoch="$(date +%s%N)$$"`
// TestLintDockerfilePinsTheLinterByDigest fails if the lint image stops
// being pinned. An unpinned tag makes the gate's verdict depend on
// whatever the registry currently serves under that name.
func TestLintDockerfilePinsTheLinterByDigest(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
from := ""
for _, instruction := range instructions(t, lintDockerfile) {
if strings.HasPrefix(instruction, "FROM ") {
from = instruction
break
}
}
require.NotEmpty(t, from, "%s declares no FROM", lintDockerfile)
assert.Contains(t, from, "golangci/golangci-lint",
"the lint image must be the golangci-lint image")
assert.Contains(t, from, "@sha256:",
"the lint image must be pinned by digest, not by tag alone")
}
// TestLintDockerfileCannotBeCachedGreen pins the whole cache-busting
// mechanism in the file that lints: the declaration with no default,
// the non-empty guard, and the value expanded into the lint command
// itself rather than merely declared.
func TestLintDockerfileCannotBeCachedGreen(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
found := instructions(t, lintDockerfile)
argAt := indexOf(found, checkEpochARG)
require.GreaterOrEqual(t, argAt, 0,
"%s must declare `%s` with no default value",
lintDockerfile, checkEpochARG)
assert.GreaterOrEqual(t, indexOf(found, checkEpochGuard), argAt,
"%s must guard against an empty CHECK_EPOCH with `%s`",
lintDockerfile, checkEpochGuard)
assertEpochExpandedInto(t, found[argAt:], "golangci-lint run")
// Dependency layers must stay above the ARG, or every lint run
// re-downloads the module cache and the inner loop becomes
// unusable.
download := indexOf(found, "RUN go mod download")
require.GreaterOrEqual(t, download, 0,
"%s must download modules in their own layer", lintDockerfile)
assert.Less(t, download, argAt,
"`%s` must come after `go mod download` so dependency layers"+
" still cache", checkEpochARG)
}
// TestLintDockerfileVerifiesTheLinterConfig guards the validation of
// .golangci.yml itself. `golangci-lint run` rejects a config it cannot
// parse but silently IGNORES an unknown top-level key, so renaming
// `linters:` to `linterz:` discards `default: all` and every threshold
// and still exits 0 reporting no issues. `config verify` is what turns
// that into a failure, and it has to run BEFORE the lint, or the lint
// spends a minute reporting a verdict from a config already known to be
// wrong.
func TestLintDockerfileVerifiesTheLinterConfig(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
found := instructions(t, lintDockerfile)
verify := linterBinary + " config verify"
verifyAt := indexContaining(found, verify)
require.GreaterOrEqual(t, verifyAt, 0,
"%s must run `%s --config .golangci.yml`: without it a typo'd"+
" top-level key in .golangci.yml is silently ignored and the"+
" gate passes with only the default linter set", lintDockerfile,
verify)
runAt := indexContaining(found, linterBinary+" run")
require.GreaterOrEqual(t, runAt, 0, "%s must lint", lintDockerfile)
assert.Less(t, verifyAt, runAt,
"%s must verify the config before linting with it", lintDockerfile)
// Keyed on the epoch like every other check layer, so it executes
// per invocation rather than being replayed. A cached validation
// validates nothing.
assertEpochExpandedInto(t, found, verify)
}
// TestProductDockerfileCannotBeCachedGreen holds the same line for the
// checks that remain in the product image build.
func TestProductDockerfileCannotBeCachedGreen(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
found := instructions(t, productDockerfile)
argAt := indexOf(found, checkEpochARG)
require.GreaterOrEqual(t, argAt, 0,
"%s must declare `%s` with no default value",
productDockerfile, checkEpochARG)
assert.GreaterOrEqual(t, indexOf(found, checkEpochGuard), argAt,
"%s must guard against an empty CHECK_EPOCH", productDockerfile)
assertEpochExpandedInto(t, found[argAt:], "make fmt-check")
assertEpochExpandedInto(t, found[argAt:], "make test")
}
// TestProductDockerfileDoesNotLint records the split deliberately: the
// linter lives in Dockerfile.lint and nowhere else, so there is exactly
// one digest pinning it. A lint stage reintroduced here would either be
// docker-in-docker (`make lint` is now `docker build`) or a second,
// independently bumpable pin.
func TestProductDockerfileDoesNotLint(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
contents := readRepoFile(t, productDockerfile)
for _, forbidden := range []string{"golangci", "make lint"} {
assert.NotContains(t, instructionText(contents), forbidden,
"%s must not lint: the linter is pinned once, in %s",
productDockerfile, lintDockerfile)
}
}
// TestLintScriptBuildsTheLintDockerfileWithAFreshEpoch is the other
// half of the mechanism. The Dockerfile's guard only rejects an EMPTY
// epoch; a constant non-empty one would satisfy it and still be served
// from cache forever.
func TestLintScriptBuildsTheLintDockerfileWithAFreshEpoch(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
script := readRepoFile(t, lintScript)
assertBareEpochAssignment(t, script, lintScript)
assert.Contains(t, script, `--build-arg CHECK_EPOCH="$epoch"`,
"%s must pass the fresh epoch to the build", lintScript)
assert.Contains(t, script, lintDockerfile,
"%s must build %s", lintScript, lintDockerfile)
}
// TestCibuildBuildsBothDockerfilesWithFreshEpochs guards the CI gate:
// dropping either build silently removes a whole class of check from
// CI while leaving it green.
func TestCibuildBuildsBothDockerfilesWithFreshEpochs(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
script := readRepoFile(t, cibuildScript)
assertBareEpochAssignment(t, script, cibuildScript)
assert.Equal(t, 2, strings.Count(script, freshEpoch),
"%s must compute a fresh epoch for each of its two builds",
cibuildScript)
assert.Equal(t, 2,
strings.Count(script, `--build-arg CHECK_EPOCH="$epoch"`),
"%s must pass a fresh epoch to both builds", cibuildScript)
assert.Contains(t, script, "-f Dockerfile.lint",
"%s must build %s", cibuildScript, lintDockerfile)
}
// assertEpochExpandedInto fails unless some instruction runs the named
// command with the epoch expanded into it. Expansion, not mere
// declaration: an ARG that no instruction references is not guaranteed
// to key the layer, and the expansion also puts the value in the build
// log where a reader can see the layer was keyed fresh.
func assertEpochExpandedInto(t *testing.T, found []string, command string) {
t.Helper()
for _, instruction := range found {
if !strings.HasPrefix(instruction, "RUN ") {
continue
}
if strings.Contains(instruction, command) &&
strings.Contains(instruction, "${CHECK_EPOCH}") {
return
}
}
assert.Fail(t, "no epoch-keyed layer runs the command",
"`%s` must run in a layer that expands ${CHECK_EPOCH}, or it"+
" will be replayed from cache without executing", command)
}
// assertBareEpochAssignment fails unless the script computes the epoch
// as a bare assignment on its own line.
func assertBareEpochAssignment(t *testing.T, script, name string) {
t.Helper()
for line := range strings.SplitSeq(script, "\n") {
if strings.TrimSpace(line) == freshEpoch {
return
}
}
assert.Fail(t, "no bare epoch assignment",
"%s must compute `%s` as a bare assignment on its own line, so"+
" `set -e` catches a failing date instead of quietly"+
" building with an empty epoch", name, freshEpoch)
}
// instructions returns the Dockerfile's instructions, one per element,
// with comments and blank lines dropped and continuation lines joined,
// so a multi-line RUN is one string.
func instructions(t *testing.T, name string) []string {
t.Helper()
return strings.Split(instructionText(readRepoFile(t, name)), "\n")
}
// instructionText is instructions' parse, before splitting: it is also
// what a "must not contain" assertion should look at, so that a word
// appearing only in a comment is not mistaken for behaviour.
func instructionText(contents string) string {
var (
out []string
continued string
isContinued bool
)
for line := range strings.SplitSeq(contents, "\n") {
trimmed := strings.TrimSpace(line)
if !isContinued && (trimmed == "" || strings.HasPrefix(trimmed, "#")) {
continue
}
isContinued = strings.HasSuffix(trimmed, `\`)
continued += strings.TrimSuffix(trimmed, `\`)
if isContinued {
continue
}
out = append(out, strings.Join(strings.Fields(continued), " "))
continued = ""
}
return strings.Join(out, "\n")
}
// indexOf returns the position of the first instruction equal to, or
// beginning with, want; -1 if there is none.
func indexOf(found []string, want string) int {
for i, instruction := range found {
if instruction == want || strings.HasPrefix(instruction, want+" ") {
return i
}
}
return -1
}
// indexContaining returns the position of the first instruction
// containing want; -1 if there is none.
func indexContaining(found []string, want string) int {
for i, instruction := range found {
if strings.Contains(instruction, want) {
return i
}
}
return -1
}
// readRepoFile reads a file by its path relative to the repository
// root.
func readRepoFile(t *testing.T, name string) string {
t.Helper()
//nolint:gosec // G304: the path is a constant relative to this repo
contents, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(repoRoot(t), name))
require.NoError(t, err)
return string(contents)
}
// repoRoot returns the repository root. The test binary runs with its
// package directory as the working directory, so the root is found by
// walking up until the module file appears.
func repoRoot(t *testing.T) string {
t.Helper()
dir, err := os.Getwd()
require.NoError(t, err)
for {
_, err = os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "go.mod"))
if err == nil {
return dir
}
parent := filepath.Dir(dir)
require.NotEqual(t, dir, parent,
"walked to the filesystem root without finding a go.mod")
dir = parent
}
}