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Lint in a container as a build step, via Dockerfile.lint (closes #113)
Every lint run now happens inside its own container, invoked through
script/lint, and linting is a build step rather than a container
command: a successful build of the new root Dockerfile.lint IS a clean
lint. That shape also works where the docker daemon is remote and bind
mounts are impossible.

Its FROM line -- golangci/golangci-lint:v2.12.2, pinned by digest -- is
now the only pin of the linter version in this repo.

A container per run has its own lint cache and its own golangci-lint
lock, both discarded with it, so neither cross-worktree contamination
nor lock contention exists any more. The machinery that defended
against them is therefore gone: the per-worktree cache directories, the
lock-retry loop, and script/lint-audit, which existed to catch findings
replayed from a cache that no longer exists. So is the host lint path
in its entirety -- the native escape hatch, its version detection, and
VAULTIK_LINT_IN_CONTAINER in both script/lint and the Dockerfile.
Nothing lints on the host, at any version.

A cached build lints nothing, so the CHECK_EPOCH mechanism the product
Dockerfile already used is what makes a green mean something:
ARG CHECK_EPOCH with no default, placed below the module layers so
dependency caching survives, a `RUN [ -n "$CHECK_EPOCH" ] || exit 1`
guard so a build that withholds the arg fails instead of replaying, and
the value expanded into the lint command itself. script/lint computes
`epoch="$(date +%s%N)$$"` as a bare assignment on its own line, because
inline in the argument a failing substitution does not abort under
`set -eu` and yields a constant empty epoch -- which is exactly the
false green being prevented.

The product Dockerfile loses its lint stage rather than gaining a
second linter pin. That stage ran `make lint`, which is now
`docker build`: docker-in-docker inside a BuildKit step with no daemon.
Calling golangci-lint directly there instead would have meant two
independently bumpable digests for one tool. `make fmt-check` moves
beside `make test` in the builder stage, and script/cibuild now builds
Dockerfile.lint and then Dockerfile, each with its own fresh epoch,
failing on either. Consequence, stated in comments rather than left to
be discovered: script/docker builds the product image only and no
longer lints; script/check and script/cibuild are the gates.

`golangci-lint config verify` runs as its own epoch-keyed layer, above
the lint. It is not belt-and-braces: `golangci-lint run` rejects a
config it cannot PARSE but silently IGNORES an unknown top-level KEY.
Renaming .golangci.yml's `linters:` to `linterz:` -- one character --
discards `default: all`, the disable list and every threshold, leaves
only the small default linter set running, and exits 0 reporting
`0 issues.` on a tree the real config fails with an lll finding, in a
run whose lint layer demonstrably executed. That is a set-but-
ineffective config falling back to defaults instead of failing loudly,
sitting in the gate's own configuration. `config verify` catches it and
does so with the network genuinely off at this pin: under
`docker run --network none` against the pinned digest it exits 0 on
this repo's config and exits 3 on the `linterz:` variant. It is keyed
on CHECK_EPOCH like the lint itself, because a cached validation
validates nothing.

script/lint-fix is kept, reimplemented as a bind-mounted
docker run against the image parsed out of Dockerfile.lint -- a build
step cannot write fixes back to the worktree -- and its header states
outright that it is a developer convenience, never a gate, and needs a
local daemon.

cmd/vaultik/lintdocker_test.go parses both Dockerfiles and both scripts
and fails if any part of the mechanism is dropped: the digest pin, the
defaultless ARG below `go mod download`, the emptiness guard, the
expansion of the epoch into each check command, the bare per-invocation
epoch assignment in both scripts, cibuild building both files, the
config verification running before the lint, and -- structurally, not
by searching for one retired variable name -- that no script invokes
golangci-lint except through docker. Every one of those losses is
silent: the build still exits 0 and nothing is checked, which is why
they are asserted rather than trusted. The scanner behind the last of
those has its own test, because a structural check that goes blind
passes on every tree, including a broken one.

script/lint takes no arguments now, and says so instead of dropping
them: a build step has no command line to pass linter flags to.
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#!/bin/sh
# script/lint: run the linter.
#
# The linter runs inside the image built by Dockerfile.lint, and it runs
# there as a BUILD STEP: a successful build of that file IS a clean
# lint. Nothing lints on the host, at any version, ever. That FROM line
# is the single source of truth for the linter version in this repo, so
# a local run and a CI run of the same tree cannot disagree.
#
# One container per run means one lint cache and one golangci-lint lock
# per run, both private to that run and thrown away with it. That is
# what makes concurrent runs on a shared host safe, and it is why this
# script no longer carries per-worktree cache directories, a lock-retry
# loop, or an output audit: there is no shared state left for them to
# defend (issue https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/vaultik/issues/113).
#
# To watch the linter execute, set BUILDKIT_PROGRESS=plain, which docker
# honours directly:
#
# BUILDKIT_PROGRESS=plain script/lint
#
# The check layers -- `golangci-lint config verify` and then
# `golangci-lint run` -- must appear as executing rather than CACHED on
# every run; see the CHECK_EPOCH comment in Dockerfile.lint.
set -eu
ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd -P)"
DOCKERFILE="$ROOT/Dockerfile.lint"
require_docker() {
if ! command -v docker >/dev/null 2>&1; then
cat >&2 <<EOF
lint: docker is required to run the pinned linter.
lint image declared by: $DOCKERFILE
Install docker. Linting with any other golangci-lint is not supported:
it is what lets a local run pass while CI fails. A golangci-lint on
PATH is never used, whatever its version.
EOF
exit 1
fi
if ! docker info >/dev/null 2>&1; then
cat >&2 <<EOF
lint: the docker daemon is not reachable, so the pinned linter cannot
run.
lint image declared by: $DOCKERFILE
Start the daemon (and check DOCKER_HOST / your group membership). This
script will not fall back to a different linter version or to an
unpinned binary on PATH.
EOF
exit 1
fi
}
usage() {
cat >&2 <<EOF
usage: $(basename "$0")
script/lint takes no arguments. The linter runs as a build step, so
there is no command line to pass flags to; anything accepted here would
have to be silently dropped. To apply autofixes, use script/lint-fix,
which runs the same pinned image as a container for exactly this
reason.
EOF
exit 2
}
main() {
[ "$#" -eq 0 ] || usage
cd "$ROOT"
require_docker
# A fresh epoch per invocation is what forces the check layers to
# execute; the layers above the ARG in Dockerfile.lint still cache,
# so a run is not cold. The value must be unique per invocation, not
# per second: `date +%s` is second-granular, so two concurrent
# invocations in the same second would get identical epochs and the
# later one could be served from cache -- the false green in
# miniature. `%N` alone does not fix it either, because busybox
# silently drops %N, exits 0, and hands back second granularity with
# no warning. `$$` is what makes this correct regardless, since
# concurrent invocations have different pids.
#
# Assign it on its own line rather than inline in the argument.
# Under `set -eu` a command substitution that fails inside an
# argument does NOT abort the script: CHECK_EPOCH would become an
# empty string, an empty string is a constant, and a constant epoch
# is exactly the cached-lint false green this guards against. As a
# bare assignment, `set -e` catches a failing `date` and no build
# starts.
epoch="$(date +%s%N)$$"
# cacheonly: the lint verdict is the build's exit status, and the
# image it would otherwise produce is never run. Exporting it costs
# most of the wall time of a warm run and leaves a dangling image
# behind on every invocation, on a host that may be running many.
docker build \
--output=type=cacheonly \
--build-arg CHECK_EPOCH="$epoch" \
-f "$DOCKERFILE" \
"$ROOT"
}
main "$@"