diff --git a/hack/.golint_failures b/hack/.golint_failures
index 7d91f2ecce..9af4827aee 100644
--- a/hack/.golint_failures
+++ b/hack/.golint_failures
@@ -191,8 +191,6 @@ pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/checksum
 pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/testing/example_checkpoint_formats/v1
 pkg/kubelet/client
 pkg/kubelet/cm
-pkg/kubelet/cm/devicemanager/checkpoint
-pkg/kubelet/cm/util
 pkg/kubelet/config
 pkg/kubelet/configmap
 pkg/kubelet/container
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/devicemanager/checkpoint/checkpoint.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/devicemanager/checkpoint/checkpoint.go
index 272a3bbe2e..441eebd668 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/devicemanager/checkpoint/checkpoint.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/devicemanager/checkpoint/checkpoint.go
@@ -23,11 +23,13 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/checkpointmanager/checksum"
 )
 
+// DeviceManagerCheckpoint defines the operations to retrieve pod devices
 type DeviceManagerCheckpoint interface {
 	checkpointmanager.Checkpoint
 	GetData() ([]PodDevicesEntry, map[string][]string)
 }
 
+// PodDevicesEntry connects pod information to devices
 type PodDevicesEntry struct {
 	PodUID        string
 	ContainerName string
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ type checkpointData struct {
 	RegisteredDevices map[string][]string
 }
 
+// Data holds checkpoint data and its checksum
 type Data struct {
 	Data     checkpointData
 	Checksum checksum.Checksum
@@ -76,6 +79,7 @@ func (cp *Data) VerifyChecksum() error {
 	return cp.Checksum.Verify(cp.Data)
 }
 
+// GetData returns device entries and registered devices
 func (cp *Data) GetData() ([]PodDevicesEntry, map[string][]string) {
 	return cp.Data.PodDeviceEntries, cp.Data.RegisteredDevices
 }
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/util/cgroups_linux.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/util/cgroups_linux.go
index 3dbb5b0e1e..170f39770c 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/util/cgroups_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/util/cgroups_linux.go
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	libcontainerutils "github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/utils"
 )
 
+// GetPids gets pids of the desired cgroup
 // Forked from opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/cgroup/fs.Manager.GetPids()
 func GetPids(cgroupPath string) ([]int, error) {
 	dir, err := getCgroupPath(cgroupPath)
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/util/cgroups_unsupported.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/util/cgroups_unsupported.go
index 371b597932..870299d8b4 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/util/cgroups_unsupported.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/util/cgroups_unsupported.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 package util
 
+// GetPids gets pids of the desired cgroup
 func GetPids(cgroupPath string) ([]int, error) {
 	return nil, nil
 }