From 58d24d2dfb258906ffefaecff3adc0ee2d82652d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Curd Becker <me@curd-becker.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 03:29:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add linter rule to guard against use of os.Is* error
 functions

Signed-off-by: Curd Becker <me@curd-becker.de>
---
 .golangci.yml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 684f98960..c5ed654c7 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ linters:
         # going to be tricked into overwriting host files.
         - pattern: ^os\.Create$
           pkg: ^os$
+        # os.Is* error checking functions predate errors.Is. Therefore, they
+        # only support errors returned by the os package and subtly fail
+        # to deal with other wrapped error types.
+        # New code should use errors.Is(err, error-type) instead.
+        - pattern: ^os\.Is(Exist|NotExist|Permission|Timeout)$
+          pkg: ^os$
       analyze-types: true
   exclusions:
     rules: