diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index ad75ddf96d..225e24be6b 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ linters:
     - unparam
     - usestdlibvars
     - varnamelen
-    - wastedassign
-    - whitespace
     - wrapcheck
     - wsl
 
diff --git a/args.go b/args.go
index 9cc11067f5..1a1429c48d 100644
--- a/args.go
+++ b/args.go
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ func decodeArgAppend(dst, src []byte) []byte {
 		return append(dst, src...)
 	}
 
-	idx := 0
+	var idx int
 	switch {
 	case idxPercent == -1:
 		idx = idxPlus
diff --git a/server.go b/server.go
index 9cfc17534c..4bfa0c5d07 100644
--- a/server.go
+++ b/server.go
@@ -1780,8 +1780,6 @@ const DefaultConcurrency = 256 * 1024
 func (s *Server) Serve(ln net.Listener) error {
 	var lastOverflowErrorTime time.Time
 	var lastPerIPErrorTime time.Time
-	var c net.Conn
-	var err error
 
 	maxWorkersCount := s.getConcurrency()
 
@@ -1813,7 +1811,8 @@ func (s *Server) Serve(ln net.Listener) error {
 	defer atomic.AddInt32(&s.open, -1)
 
 	for {
-		if c, err = acceptConn(s, ln, &lastPerIPErrorTime); err != nil {
+		c, err := acceptConn(s, ln, &lastPerIPErrorTime)
+		if err != nil {
 			wp.Stop()
 			if err == io.EOF {
 				return nil
@@ -1846,7 +1845,6 @@ func (s *Server) Serve(ln net.Listener) error {
 				time.Sleep(s.SleepWhenConcurrencyLimitsExceeded)
 			}
 		}
-		c = nil
 	}
 }
 
@@ -2292,7 +2290,6 @@ func (s *Server) serveConn(c net.Conn) (err error) {
 		// 'Expect: 100-continue' request handling.
 		// See https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.2.3 for details.
 		if ctx.Request.MayContinue() {
-
 			// Allow the ability to deny reading the incoming request body
 			if s.ContinueHandler != nil {
 				if continueReadingRequest = s.ContinueHandler(&ctx.Request.Header); !continueReadingRequest {
@@ -2582,7 +2579,7 @@ func acquireByteReader(ctxP **RequestCtx) (*bufio.Reader, error) {
 	c := ctx.c
 	s.releaseCtx(ctx)
 
-	// Make GC happy, so it could garbage collect ctx while we wait for the
+	//nolint:wastedassign // Make GC happy, so it could garbage collect ctx while we wait for the
 	// next request.
 	ctx = nil
 	*ctxP = nil
diff --git a/server_test.go b/server_test.go
index ad188db190..5bc7d80f91 100644
--- a/server_test.go
+++ b/server_test.go
@@ -1920,7 +1920,6 @@ func TestServerContinueHandler(t *testing.T) {
 	// Expect 100 continue denied
 	rw := &readWriter{}
 	for i := 0; i < 25; i++ {
-
 		// Regular requests without Expect 100 continue header
 		rw.r.Reset()
 		rw.r.WriteString("POST /foo HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: gle.com\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\nContent-Type: a/b\r\n\r\n12345")
diff --git a/streaming_test.go b/streaming_test.go
index 084710b4da..e6ebb7c230 100644
--- a/streaming_test.go
+++ b/streaming_test.go
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ aaaaaaaaaa`
 	s := &Server{
 		StreamRequestBody: true,
 		Handler: func(ctx *RequestCtx) {
-			body := ""
+			var body string
 			expected := "aaaaaaaaaa"
 			if string(ctx.Path()) == "/one" {
 				body = string(ctx.PostBody())
diff --git a/tcpdialer.go b/tcpdialer.go
index 5c7531e948..a8538b803c 100644
--- a/tcpdialer.go
+++ b/tcpdialer.go
@@ -375,7 +375,6 @@ func (d *TCPDialer) tcpAddrsClean() {
 			}
 			return true
 		})
-
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/workerpool.go b/workerpool.go
index 71da1f2f9a..12bc745a46 100644
--- a/workerpool.go
+++ b/workerpool.go
@@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ func (wp *workerPool) clean(scratch *[]*workerChan) {
 	n := len(ready)
 
 	// Use binary-search algorithm to find out the index of the least recently worker which can be cleaned up.
-	l, r, mid := 0, n-1, 0
+	l, r := 0, n-1
 	for l <= r {
-		mid = (l + r) / 2
+		mid := (l + r) / 2
 		if criticalTime.After(wp.ready[mid].lastUseTime) {
 			l = mid + 1
 		} else {
@@ -238,7 +238,6 @@ func (wp *workerPool) workerFunc(ch *workerChan) {
 			_ = c.Close()
 			wp.connState(c, StateClosed)
 		}
-		c = nil
 
 		if !wp.release(ch) {
 			break