chore: do not use sentinel errors when unneeded

- main reason being it's a burden to always define sentinel errors at global scope, wrap them with `%w` instead of using a string directly
- only use sentinel errors when it has to be checked using `errors.Is`
- replace all usage of these sentinel errors in `fmt.Errorf` with direct strings that were in the sentinel error
- exclude the sentinel error definition requirement from .golangci.yml
- update unit tests to use ContainersError instead of ErrorIs so it stays as a "not a change detector test" without requiring a sentinel error

internal/mod/configgz_linux.go

@@ -3,19 +3,11 @@ package mod
 import (
 	"bufio"
 	"compress/gzip"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 )
 
-var (
-	errModuleNameUnknown     = errors.New("unknown module name")
-	errKernelFeatureIsModule = errors.New("kernel feature is a module, not built-in")
-	errKernelFeatureNotSet   = errors.New("kernel feature not set")
-	errKernelFeatureNotFound = errors.New("kernel feature not found")
-)
-
 // checkProcConfig checks /proc/config.gz for a the kernel feature corresponding
 // to the given module name. If the kernel feature is found and set to "y", it returns nil.
 // If the kernel feature is found and set to "m", it returns an error indicating that the kernel
@@ -39,7 +31,7 @@ func checkProcConfig(moduleName string) error {
 	// If any group of kernel features is satisfied, then the module is considered supported.
 	kernelFeatureGroups, ok := moduleNameToKernelFeatureGroups(moduleName)
 	if !ok {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errModuleNameUnknown, moduleName)
+		return fmt.Errorf("unknown module name: %s", moduleName)
 	}
 	groups := make([]map[string]bool, len(kernelFeatureGroups))
 	for i, group := range kernelFeatureGroups {
@@ -58,20 +50,20 @@ func checkProcConfig(moduleName string) error {
 				switch {
 				case ok:
 				case strings.HasPrefix(line, name+"=m"):
-					return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errKernelFeatureIsModule, name)
+					return fmt.Errorf("kernel feature is a module, not built-in: %s", name)
 				case strings.HasPrefix(line, name+"=y"):
 					featureToOK[name] = true
 					if allFeaturesOK(featureToOK) {
 						return nil
 					}
 				case strings.HasPrefix(line, "# "+name+" is not set"):
-					return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errKernelFeatureNotSet, name)
+					return fmt.Errorf("kernel feature not set: %s", name)
 				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
 
-	return fmt.Errorf("%w: for module name %s", errKernelFeatureNotFound, moduleName)
+	return fmt.Errorf("kernel feature not found: for module name %s", moduleName)
 }
 
 func moduleNameToKernelFeatureGroups(moduleName string) (featureGroups [][]string, ok bool) {

internal/mod/info_linux.go

@@ -181,8 +181,6 @@ func getLoadedModules(modulesInfo map[string]moduleInfo) (err error) {
 	return nil
 }
 
-var ErrModulePathNotFound = errors.New("module path not found")
-
 func findModulePath(moduleName string, modulesInfo map[string]moduleInfo) (modulePath string, err error) {
 	// Kernel module names can have underscores or hyphens in their names,
 	// but only one or the other in one particular name.
@@ -205,5 +203,5 @@ func findModulePath(moduleName string, modulesInfo map[string]moduleInfo) (modul
 		}
 	}
 
-	return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: for %q", ErrModulePathNotFound, moduleName)
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("module path not found: for %q", moduleName)
 }

internal/mod/load_linux.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package mod
 
 import (
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
@@ -14,15 +13,10 @@ import (
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
 
-var (
-	ErrModuleInfoNotFound = errors.New("module info not found")
-	ErrCircularDependency = errors.New("circular dependency")
-)
-
 func initDependencies(path string, modulesInfo map[string]moduleInfo) (err error) {
 	info, ok := modulesInfo[path]
 	if !ok {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrModuleInfoNotFound, path)
+		return fmt.Errorf("module info not found: %s", path)
 	}
 
 	switch info.state {
@@ -30,8 +24,7 @@ func initDependencies(path string, modulesInfo map[string]moduleInfo) (err error
 	case loaded, builtin:
 		return nil
 	case loading:
-		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s is already in the loading state",
-			ErrCircularDependency, path)
+		return fmt.Errorf("circular dependency: %s is already in the loading state", path)
 	}
 
 	info.state = loading