Panics when building w/ Go 1.22.x

[mamachanko]

What steps did you take:

1. Checkout kapp-controller
2. Build with Golang 1.22

What happened:

❯ go version
go version go1.22.2 darwin/amd64

❯ git rev-parse @
6f2515eb308e4238b24c8a78fe201dc06a566cd0

❯ ./hack/build.sh
+ export CGO_ENABLED=0
+ CGO_ENABLED=0
+ go mod vendor
+ go mod tidy
+ go fmt ./cmd/... ./pkg/...
+ go build -trimpath -mod=vendor -o controller ./cmd/controller/...
+ ls -la ./controller
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 *****  *****  ***** ***** ./controller
+ ./hack/gen-crds.sh
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [recovered]
        panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0xaa2ee4f]

goroutine 103 [running]:
go/types.(*Checker).handleBailout(0xc00077e800, 0xc001475d40)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/check.go:367 +0x88
panic({0xad49760?, 0xb2fd820?})
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/runtime/panic.go:770 +0x132
go/types.(*StdSizes).Sizeof(0x0, {0xae14070, 0xb305f80})
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/sizes.go:228 +0x30f
go/types.(*Config).sizeof(...)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/sizes.go:333
go/types.representableConst.func1({0xae14070?, 0xb305f80?})
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/const.go:76 +0x9e
go/types.representableConst({0xae1a2f0, 0xb2d1020}, 0xc00077e800, 0xb305f80, 0xc0014754b0)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/const.go:92 +0x192
go/types.(*Checker).representation(0xc00077e800, 0xc001453480, 0xb305f80)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/const.go:256 +0x65
go/types.(*Checker).implicitTypeAndValue(0xc00077e800, 0xc001453480, {0xae14098, 0xc0001daee0})
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/expr.go:375 +0x2d7
go/types.(*Checker).assignment(0xc00077e800, 0xc001453480, {0xae14098, 0xc0001daee0}, {0xab89f74, 0x14})
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/assignments.go:52 +0x2e5
go/types.(*Checker).initConst(0xc00077e800, 0xc00141d080, 0xc001453480)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/assignments.go:126 +0x2c5
go/types.(*Checker).constDecl(0xc00077e800, 0xc00141d080, {0xae16c18, 0xc001a1a1c0}, {0xae16c18, 0xc001a1a1e0}, 0x0)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/decl.go:490 +0x311
go/types.(*Checker).objDecl(0xc00077e800, {0xae1f380, 0xc00141d080}, 0x0)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/decl.go:191 +0xa49
go/types.(*Checker).packageObjects(0xc00077e800)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/resolver.go:693 +0x4dd
go/types.(*Checker).checkFiles(0xc00077e800, {0xc00198a000, 0x5, 0x5})
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/check.go:408 +0x1a5
go/types.(*Checker).Files(...)
        /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.22.2/libexec/src/go/types/check.go:372
sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader.(*loader).typeCheck(0xc0002031a0, 0xc0014624c0)
        /Users/*****/workspace/carvel/kapp-controller/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader/loader.go:283 +0x36a
sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader.(*Package).NeedTypesInfo(0xc0014624c0)
        /Users/*****/workspace/carvel/kapp-controller/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader/loader.go:96 +0x39
sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader.(*TypeChecker).check(0xc0009a9680, 0xc0014624c0)
        /Users/*****/workspace/carvel/kapp-controller/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader/refs.go:263 +0x2b7
sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader.(*TypeChecker).check.func1(0x65?)
        /Users/*****/workspace/carvel/kapp-controller/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader/refs.go:257 +0x53
created by sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader.(*TypeChecker).check in goroutine 65
        /Users/*****/workspace/carvel/kapp-controller/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/pkg/loader/refs.go:255 +0x1c5
exit status 2

What did you expect:

kapp-controller can be built with any Golang >= 1.21

Anything else you would like to add:

Environment:

• macOS
• Golang 1.22.2

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[praveenrewar]

Thank you for reporting the issue @mamachanko! There is a fix available for this in #1441, we need to bump to latest version of client-go which is something we have been holding off for a while (due to some warnings on older k8s version). Now it seems that we will have to bump to latest version of client-go if we want to move to go 1.22.x.
cc @renuy @rohitagg2020