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What this PR does / why we need it:

Completes items 5&6 of the CNTRLPLANE-3532 status-patching migration plan:

  • hcpstatuspatch static analyzer (hack/tools/hypershiftlinter): bans direct Status().Update() and unguarded MergeFrom() status patches on HostedControlPlane objects (matched by type name via go/types) — both patterns can silently overwrite a concurrent writer's changes since CPO/HCCO/HO all write to the same HostedControlPlane.Status. _test.go files are excluded (fixture-seeding via a fake client has no concurrent writer to race with).
  • AGENTS.md guidance: new "HostedControlPlane Status Patching" section in control-plane-operator/AGENTS.md explaining the safe pattern (support/statuspatching's PatchStatus/PatchStatusCondition) and the recompute-vs-replay pitfall found during CNTRLPLANE-3532 review, plus a cross-reference in root AGENTS.md.

Part of the broader CNTRLPLANE-3532 migration. Independent of #8966/#9385 — no code overlap — but the linter is staged inert on purpose, see below.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Part of CNTRLPLANE-3532 — does not close it (JSON Patch/RFC 6902 variant + nullable-field test still outstanding).

Special notes for your reviewer:

  • hcpstatuspatch is landed but NOT enabled in .golangci.yml (added to an explicit enable: allowlist that deliberately excludes it), following this repo's own documented staged-rollout pattern for new hypershiftlinter analyzers. Enabling it now would fail CI on control-plane-operator/hostedclusterconfigoperator/controllers/reencryption/reencryption.go:73 (MergeFrom(originalHCP) on HCP), which is already fixed in CNTRLPLANE-3532: migrate CPO status patches to statuspatching helpers #8966 but not yet merged to main. Follow-up PR flips it on once CNTRLPLANE-3532: migrate CPO status patches to statuspatching helpers #8966 (and any other in-flight HCP status-patch migrations) land — verified this is the only remaining violation by temporarily enabling it locally and running make hypershift-lint-all against the full tree.
  • Verified no false positives from the type-name-only matching approach (repo-wide grep confirms HostedControlPlane is a unique type name, no collision).
  • Verified test-file exclusion is correct: without it, the analyzer would (incorrectly) flag hypershift-operator/controllers/hostedcluster/karpenter_test.go:502, a legitimate fixture-seeding Status().Update() call in a synchronous unit test.

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  • Relevant issues have been referenced.
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  • New Features

    • Expanded linting coverage for test naming, annotations, guest clusters, context usage, vacuous passes, IPv6 URLs, and approved E2E utility usage.
    • Added detection for unsafe HostedControlPlane status updates; enforcement remains disabled during migration.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for safe concurrent status updates, retries, generation checks, and required helpers.
    • Documented analyzer coverage and migration requirements.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for unsafe status update patterns and improved fixture-level test reporting.

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@vsolanki12: This pull request references CNTRLPLANE-3532 which is a valid jira issue.

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What this PR does / why we need it:

Completes items 5&6 of the CNTRLPLANE-3532 status-patching migration plan:

  • hcpstatuspatch static analyzer (hack/tools/hypershiftlinter): bans direct Status().Update() and unguarded MergeFrom() status patches on HostedControlPlane objects (matched by type name via go/types) — both patterns can silently overwrite a concurrent writer's changes since CPO/HCCO/HO all write to the same HostedControlPlane.Status. _test.go files are excluded (fixture-seeding via a fake client has no concurrent writer to race with).
  • AGENTS.md guidance: new "HostedControlPlane Status Patching" section in control-plane-operator/AGENTS.md explaining the safe pattern (support/statuspatching's PatchStatus/PatchStatusCondition) and the recompute-vs-replay pitfall found during CNTRLPLANE-3532 review, plus a cross-reference in root AGENTS.md.

Part of the broader CNTRLPLANE-3532 migration. Independent of #8966/#9385 — no code overlap — but the linter is staged inert on purpose, see below.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Part of CNTRLPLANE-3532 — does not close it (JSON Patch/RFC 6902 variant + nullable-field test still outstanding).

Special notes for your reviewer:

  • hcpstatuspatch is landed but NOT enabled in .golangci.yml (added to an explicit enable: allowlist that deliberately excludes it), following this repo's own documented staged-rollout pattern for new hypershiftlinter analyzers. Enabling it now would fail CI on control-plane-operator/hostedclusterconfigoperator/controllers/reencryption/reencryption.go:73 (MergeFrom(originalHCP) on HCP), which is already fixed in CNTRLPLANE-3532: migrate CPO status patches to statuspatching helpers #8966 but not yet merged to main. Follow-up PR flips it on once CNTRLPLANE-3532: migrate CPO status patches to statuspatching helpers #8966 (and any other in-flight HCP status-patch migrations) land — verified this is the only remaining violation by temporarily enabling it locally and running make hypershift-lint-all against the full tree.
  • Verified no false positives from the type-name-only matching approach (repo-wide grep confirms HostedControlPlane is a unique type name, no collision).
  • Verified test-file exclusion is correct: without it, the analyzer would (incorrectly) flag hypershift-operator/controllers/hostedcluster/karpenter_test.go:502, a legitimate fixture-seeding Status().Update() call in a synchronous unit test.

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  • Relevant issues have been referenced.
  • This change includes docs.
  • This change includes unit tests.

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Added the hcpstatuspatch static analyzer for unsafe HostedControlPlane status updates and unguarded MergeFrom calls. Registered the analyzer in the plugin while excluding it from the enabled configuration. Added tests and documented the required support/statuspatching helpers, concurrency rules, conflict retry behavior, and staged rollout.

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…status patches

Adds a static analyzer to hypershiftlinter that bans direct
Status().Update() and unguarded MergeFrom() status patches on
HostedControlPlane objects, both of which can silently overwrite
concurrent writes from other controllers (CPO/HCCO/HO all write to
the same HostedControlPlane.Status).

Excludes _test.go files: seeding fixture status via a fake client's
Status().Update() in a synchronous unit test has no concurrent writer
to race with, so the rule doesn't apply there.

Landed but not yet enabled in .golangci.yml — enabling it now would
fail on the last couple of call sites still being migrated to
support/statuspatching in other in-flight PRs. Add hcpstatuspatch to
the enable list once those land (see README.md's staged rollout note).

Part of the broader CNTRLPLANE-3532 status-patching migration.

Signed-off-by: Vimal Solanki <vsolanki@redhat.com>
Documents the support/statuspatching pattern, why raw Status().Update()
and unguarded MergeFrom() are unsafe on HostedControlPlane, and the
mutate-callback recompute-vs-replay pitfall found during CNTRLPLANE-3532
review (PatchStatus's retry-on-conflict replays whatever the callback
does — it must recompute from the fresh object, not reapply a value
captured before the call).

Part of the broader CNTRLPLANE-3532 status-patching migration.

Signed-off-by: Vimal Solanki <vsolanki@redhat.com>
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## Analyzers

The plugin ships 7 analyzers, scoped so each rule only fires where it applies.
The plugin ships 8 analyzers, scoped so each rule only fires where it applies.

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The README still says the plugin ships 8 analyzers, but allAnalyzers() now registers 9. The existing e2eutilallowlist analyzer is also missing from the inventory. Please update the count and tables.

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Updated the inventory to 9 analyzers and added the missing e2eutilallowlist row.

}
switch t := typ.(type) {
case *ast.Ident:
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The optimistic-lock check also accepts any type or function named MergeFromWithOptimisticLock, regardless of package. An unrelated value could therefore suppress a diagnostic for an actually unguarded controller-runtime patch. Please resolve the symbol package identity here as well.

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The optimistic-lock check now requires MergeFromWithOptimisticLock from sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/client. Added a same-name local type fixture so an unrelated symbol no longer suppresses the diagnostic.

ipv6url.Analyzer,
e2eutilallowlist.Analyzer,
hcpstatuspatch.Analyzer,
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The Jira requirement also includes warning on reflect.DeepEqual for Kubernetes API objects. This registration adds only the Update/MergeFrom checks. Is the DeepEqual check intentionally a follow-up? If so, please track that explicitly; otherwise, add and register it here.

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Intentionally a follow-up. This analyzer is scoped to HCP Status().Update() and unguarded MergeFrom; a reflect.DeepEqual-on-API-objects rule is a different check with a much larger blast radius. Tracked that in the README staged-rollout section.

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for _, call := range mergeCallsForPatchExpr(pass, statusPatch.Args[2], enclosingFn) {
name, _ := mergePatchConstructorName(pass, call)

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The isControllerRuntime result from mergePatchConstructorName is discarded here. As a result, any function named MergeFrom or MergeFromWithOptions is treated as the controller-runtime constructor, including unrelated local functions. Please retain the boolean result and only inspect/report when it is true. A same-name non-controller-runtime fixture would cover this case.

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Kept the isControllerRuntime result and only inspect/report controller-runtime MergeFrom constructors. Added a local same-name MergeFrom fixture that is ignored.

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return false
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return named.Obj().Name() == "HostedControlPlane"

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This only checks named.Obj().Name(), so any type named HostedControlPlane is treated as the HyperShift HCP. A local or third-party type with the same name can therefore trigger the rule. Please match the expected HyperShift API package path and add a negative fixture for a same-name type.

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HostedControlPlane is now matched by package path (github.com/openshift/hypershift/api/hypershift/v1beta1) as well as type name. Added a negative fixture for a same-name local type.

Honor controller-runtime and HyperShift API package identity so
same-named local types and functions cannot suppress or trigger
diagnostics. Update fixtures to stub those import paths, fix the
analyzer inventory count, and track the CNTRLPLANE-3532 DeepEqual
check as a follow-up.

Signed-off-by: Vimal Solanki <vsolanki@redhat.com>

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187-197: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Trace the patch value that reaches Status().Patch.

findMergeAssignments collects every assignment with the same identifier spelling in the enclosing function. It does not compare types.Object values or assignment order. A stale patch = client.MergeFrom(hcp) assignment can therefore report a violation after patch is overwritten with MergeFromWithOptions(..., MergeFromWithOptimisticLock{}). An inner function that shadows patch can also create a false diagnostic.

Resolve the patch identifier by object identity. Then inspect only assignments that can reach the Status().Patch call. Add fixtures for reassignment and nested-function shadowing.

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Avoid shadowing the parent test handle.

Line 27 shadows TestAnalyzer's t. Name the subtest parameter subtest and pass it to analysistest.Run.

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 for _, tt := range tests {
-	t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-		analysistest.Run(t, testdata, Analyzer, tt.pattern)
+	t.Run(tt.name, func(subtest *testing.T) {
+		analysistest.Run(subtest, testdata, Analyzer, tt.pattern)
 	})
 }

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In `@hack/tools/hypershiftlinter/analyzers/hcpstatuspatch/hcpstatuspatch.go`:
- Around line 187-197: Update findMergeAssignments and its callers to resolve
the patch variable by types.Object identity rather than identifier spelling, and
only collect assignments whose values can reach the relevant Status().Patch call
in execution order. Exclude overwritten earlier assignments and identifiers
shadowed by nested functions, while preserving detection of the final effective
patch construction; add fixtures covering reassignment and nested-function
shadowing.

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In `@hack/tools/hypershiftlinter/analyzers/hcpstatuspatch/hcpstatuspatch_test.go`:
- Around line 26-29: Rename the subtest callback parameter in TestAnalyzer from
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Both notes are addressed.

findMergeAssignments now resolves the patch variable by types.Object, skips nested-function shadows, and only inspects the assignment that reaches Status().Patch. Added reassignment and shadowing fixtures.

Renamed the TestAnalyzer subtest parameter so it does not shadow t.

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In `@hack/tools/hypershiftlinter/analyzers/hcpstatuspatch/hcpstatuspatch.go`:
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The original patch-variable identity, reassignment, nested-function shadowing, and test-variable shadowing issues are addressed by 935cf58.

One remaining data-flow issue exists: collectReachingAssigns identifies the target assignment, but findMergeAssignments then scans every RHS in that assignment. A MergeFrom assigned to another variable in a multi-value assignment can therefore be reported as the patch passed to Status().Patch. Nested unconditional block reassignments can also leave stale outer definitions in the result.

Please associate the matched LHS with its corresponding RHS and reconcile reaching definitions across nested blocks. Add fixtures for multi-value assignments and nested safe reassignments.

for _, stmt := range assigns {
for _, rhs := range stmt.Rhs {
calls = append(calls, collectMergePatchConstructorCalls(pass, rhs)...)
}

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Blocking: After identifying an assignment involving the target patch object, this loop collects merge constructors from every RHS. For example, patch, unrelated := guardedPatch, client.MergeFrom(hcp) would report the MergeFrom assigned to unrelated, even though only patch reaches Status().Patch. Preserve the LHS-to-RHS association and inspect only the RHS assigned to the matched object. Please add a multi-value assignment fixture.

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Done. The collector now preserves each assignment’s LHS-to-RHS mapping, so only the patch variable’s RHS is inspected in multi-value assignments; added a regression fixture.

walkNestedAssignScopes(pass, stmt, obj, patchPos, out)
}
if lastInThisBlock != nil {
*out = append(*out, lastInThisBlock)

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Blocking: A definition from an outer block is appended after definitions discovered in nested blocks. An unconditional reassignment such as patch := unsafe; { patch = guarded }; Status().Patch(..., patch) therefore returns both definitions and still reports the stale outer MergeFrom. Reconcile reaching definitions across nested blocks, while remaining conservative when an unsafe conditional path can still reach the patch call. Add a nested safe-reassignment fixture.

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Done. Reconciled nested-block definitions in source order, so a later unconditional guarded assignment suppresses stale unsafe definitions while conditional unsafe paths remain reported.

Resolve the patch variable by types.Object so overwritten MergeFrom
values and nested-function shadows do not produce false diagnostics.

Signed-off-by: Vimal Solanki <vsolanki@redhat.com>
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