diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/server.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/server.go
index 648214bbc34..e515500c600 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/server.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/server.go
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ func RunKubelet(kubeServer *options.KubeletServer, kubeDeps *kubelet.Dependencie
 	}
 	podCfg := kubeDeps.PodConfig
 
-	if err := rlimit.RlimitNumFiles(uint64(kubeServer.MaxOpenFiles)); err != nil {
+	if err := rlimit.SetNumFiles(uint64(kubeServer.MaxOpenFiles)); err != nil {
 		klog.Errorf("Failed to set rlimit on max file handles: %v", err)
 	}
 
diff --git a/hack/.golint_failures b/hack/.golint_failures
index 348f055f8d1..ae32b4edafb 100644
--- a/hack/.golint_failures
+++ b/hack/.golint_failures
@@ -193,7 +193,6 @@ pkg/util/labels # See previous effort in PR #80685
 pkg/util/oom
 pkg/util/procfs
 pkg/util/removeall
-pkg/util/rlimit
 pkg/util/selinux
 pkg/util/taints
 pkg/volume
diff --git a/pkg/util/rlimit/rlimit_linux.go b/pkg/util/rlimit/rlimit_linux.go
index 263fced6c4b..ef14f883811 100644
--- a/pkg/util/rlimit/rlimit_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/util/rlimit/rlimit_linux.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
 
-func RlimitNumFiles(maxOpenFiles uint64) error {
+// SetNumFiles sets the linux rlimit for the maximum open files.
+func SetNumFiles(maxOpenFiles uint64) error {
 	return unix.Setrlimit(unix.RLIMIT_NOFILE, &unix.Rlimit{Max: maxOpenFiles, Cur: maxOpenFiles})
 }
diff --git a/pkg/util/rlimit/rlimit_unsupported.go b/pkg/util/rlimit/rlimit_unsupported.go
index 25f57be2c31..44011948342 100644
--- a/pkg/util/rlimit/rlimit_unsupported.go
+++ b/pkg/util/rlimit/rlimit_unsupported.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 )
 
-func RlimitNumFiles(maxOpenFiles uint64) error {
+// SetNumFiles sets the rlimit for the maximum open files.
+func SetNumFiles(maxOpenFiles uint64) error {
 	return errors.New("SetRLimit unsupported in this platform")
 }