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aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent: internal/ecsservicediscovery/taskdefinitionprocessor.go; 20 LoC

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Found a possible issue in [aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent](https://www.github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent) at [internal/ecsservicediscovery/taskdefinitionprocessor.go](https://github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/blob/370a4a8a671e6bd99898db4a8dd8cfa6f2bf0fb0/internal/ecsservicediscovery/taskdefinitionprocessor.go#L50-L69)

Below is the message reported by the analyzer for this snippet of code. Beware that the analyzer only reports the first issue it finds, so please do not limit your consideration to the contents of the below message.

> reference to k was used in a composite literal at line 60

[Click here to see the code in its original context.](https://github.com/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/blob/370a4a8a671e6bd99898db4a8dd8cfa6f2bf0fb0/internal/ecsservicediscovery/taskdefinitionprocessor.go#L50-L69)

Click here to show the 20 line(s) of Go which triggered the analyzer.

```go
for k, _ := range arn2Definition {
if k == "" {
continue
}

var td *ecs.TaskDefinition
if res, ok := p.taskDefCache.Get(k); ok {
p.stats.AddStats(LRUCacheGetTaskDefinition)
td = res.(*ecs.TaskDefinition)
} else {
resp, err := p.svcEcs.DescribeTaskDefinition(&ecs.DescribeTaskDefinitionInput{TaskDefinition: &k})
p.stats.AddStats(AWSCLIDescribeTaskDefinition)
if err != nil {
return taskList, newServiceDiscoveryError("Failed to describe task definition for "+k, &err)
}
p.taskDefCache.Add(k, resp.TaskDefinition)
td = resp.TaskDefinition
}
arn2Definition[k] = td
}

```

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commit ID: 370a4a8a671e6bd99898db4a8dd8cfa6f2bf0fb0

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