diff --git a/hack/.golint_failures b/hack/.golint_failures
index 1dec152e4d1..5251dac25da 100644
--- a/hack/.golint_failures
+++ b/hack/.golint_failures
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume
 pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/config/v1alpha1
 pkg/controlplane/controller/crdregistration
 pkg/controlplane/tunneler
-pkg/credentialprovider/plugin
 pkg/features
 pkg/kubeapiserver
 pkg/kubectl/cmd/convert
diff --git a/pkg/credentialprovider/plugin/plugin.go b/pkg/credentialprovider/plugin/plugin.go
index 6b1c7463df5..c646d5ca871 100644
--- a/pkg/credentialprovider/plugin/plugin.go
+++ b/pkg/credentialprovider/plugin/plugin.go
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ func (p *pluginProvider) Provide(image string) credentialprovider.DockerConfig {
 }
 
 // Enabled always returns true since registration of the plugin via kubelet implies it should be enabled.
-func (e *pluginProvider) Enabled() bool {
+func (p *pluginProvider) Enabled() bool {
 	return true
 }