react/jsx-max-depth false positive

[mockdeep]

With the react/jsx-max-depth rule enabled with default settings, I get a false positive with the following code:

const TABLE_HEADERS = (
  <tr className='tasks-table__header-row'>
    <th className='tasks-table__header' />
    <th className='tasks-table__header'>{'Title'}</th>
    <th className='tasks-table__header' />
    <th className='tasks-table__header'>{'Estimate'}</th>
    <th className='tasks-table__header' />
    <th className='tasks-table__header'>{'Priority'}</th>
    <th className='tasks-table__header'>{'Timeframe'}</th>
    <th className='tasks-table__header' />
  </tr>
);

It reports:

  12:5  error  Expected the depth of nested jsx elements to be <= 2, but found 4   react/jsx-max-depth
  13:5  error  Expected the depth of nested jsx elements to be <= 2, but found 5   react/jsx-max-depth
  14:5  error  Expected the depth of nested jsx elements to be <= 2, but found 6   react/jsx-max-depth
  15:5  error  Expected the depth of nested jsx elements to be <= 2, but found 7   react/jsx-max-depth
  16:5  error  Expected the depth of nested jsx elements to be <= 2, but found 8   react/jsx-max-depth
  17:5  error  Expected the depth of nested jsx elements to be <= 2, but found 9   react/jsx-max-depth
  18:5  error  Expected the depth of nested jsx elements to be <= 2, but found 10  react/jsx-max-depth
  19:5  error  Expected the depth of nested jsx elements to be <= 2, but found 11  react/jsx-max-depth

It appears that maybe there's a false positive when a tag is self-closing, but I'm also confused as to why it registers 4 instead of 2 on line 12, which maps to the first th tag above.

[ljharb]

In what context is TABLE_HEADERS used?

[mockdeep]

It looks like this:

render() {
  return (
    <div>
      <table>
        <thead>{TABLE_HEADERS}</thead>
      </table>
    </div>
  );
}

I realized that the 4 instead of 2 bit was because it measures the nesting of all elements in the file, regardless of indirection, but still the count going up is a little odd.

[ljharb]

Indeed, the tr there is at the 4th level, and the th's each on the 5th.

I don't think being self-closing matters, or else the lines with two non-self-closing th tags in a row wouldn't have incremented the count - but there's definitely a bug here with the reported count in the error message.