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Co-authored-by: Simon Sawert <simon@sawert.se>

Author: ldez

pkg/config/config.go

@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ func detectGoVersion() string {
 
 // Trims the Go version to keep only M.m.
 // Since Go 1.21 the version inside the go.mod can be a patched version (ex: 1.21.0).
+// The version can also include information which we want to remove (ex: 1.21alpha1)
 // https://go.dev/doc/toolchain#versions
 // This a problem with staticcheck and gocritic.
 func trimGoVersion(v string) string {

pkg/config/loader.go

@@ -73,20 +73,22 @@ func (l *Loader) handleGoVersion() {
 
 	l.cfg.LintersSettings.ParallelTest.Go = l.cfg.Run.Go
 
-	l.cfg.LintersSettings.Gocritic.Go = trimGoVersion(l.cfg.Run.Go)
+	trimmedGoVersion := trimGoVersion(l.cfg.Run.Go)
+	
+	l.cfg.LintersSettings.Gocritic.Go = trimmedGoVersion 
 	if l.cfg.LintersSettings.Gofumpt.LangVersion == "" {
 		l.cfg.LintersSettings.Gofumpt.LangVersion = l.cfg.Run.Go
 	}
 
 	// staticcheck related linters.
 	if l.cfg.LintersSettings.Staticcheck.GoVersion == "" {
-		l.cfg.LintersSettings.Staticcheck.GoVersion = trimGoVersion(l.cfg.Run.Go)
+		l.cfg.LintersSettings.Staticcheck.GoVersion = trimmedGoVersion 
 	}
 	if l.cfg.LintersSettings.Gosimple.GoVersion == "" {
-		l.cfg.LintersSettings.Gosimple.GoVersion = trimGoVersion(l.cfg.Run.Go)
+		l.cfg.LintersSettings.Gosimple.GoVersion = trimmedGoVersion 
 	}
 	if l.cfg.LintersSettings.Stylecheck.GoVersion != "" {
-		l.cfg.LintersSettings.Stylecheck.GoVersion = trimGoVersion(l.cfg.Run.Go)
+		l.cfg.LintersSettings.Stylecheck.GoVersion = trimmedGoVersion 
 	}
 }
 

pkg/lint/lintersdb/validator.go

@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ func NewValidator(m *Manager) *Validator {
 	return &Validator{m: m}
 }
 
-// Validate validates the configuration.
+// Validate validates the configuration by calling all other validators for different
+// sections in the configuration and then some additional linter validation functions.
 func (v Validator) Validate(cfg *config.Config) error {
 	err := cfg.Validate()
 	if err != nil {