jinja[invalid] error when using vars on a task

[branic]

Summary

A task where the module directives are using jinja templating and the task has a vars directive that define variables used in the jinja templating causes a jinja[invalid] error to be reported.

Issue Type

• Bug Report

Ansible and Ansible Lint details

ansible --version
ansible [core 2.13.4]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/home/bevans/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /home/bevans/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/bevans/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /home/bevans/.local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.10.7 (main, Sep  7 2022, 00:00:00) [GCC 12.2.1 20220819 (Red Hat 12.2.1-1)]
  jinja version = 3.0.3
  libyaml = True

ansible-lint --version
ansible-lint 6.8.0 using ansible 2.13.4

• ansible installation method: pip
• ansible-lint installation method: pip

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Fedora 36

Also verified using the quay.io/ansible/creator-ee:v0.9.2 container image

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Task Definition causing failure:

- name: Create namespace
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    host: "{{ __aap_ocp_install_auth_results['openshift_auth']['host'] }}"
    api_key: "{{ __aap_ocp_install_auth_results['openshift_auth']['api_key'] }}"
    validate_certs: "{{ aap_ocp_install_ocp_connection['validate_certs'] | default(omit) }}"
    state: present
    resource_definition: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.template', 'namespace.yaml.j2', template_vars=ns_vars) | from_yaml }}"
    apply: true
  vars:
    ns_vars:
      ns_name: "{{ aap_ocp_install_namespace }}"

Desired Behavior

The above task should not generate a jinja[invalid] error

Actual Behavior

Please give some details of what is actually happening.
Include a minimum complete verifiable example with:

• playbook
• output of running ansible-lint
• if you're getting a stack trace, output of
  ansible-playbook --syntax-check playbook

$ ansible-lint --profile=production roles/aap_ocp_install/tasks/initialization.yml 
WARNING  Listing 1 violation(s) that are fatal
roles/aap_ocp_install/tasks/initialization.yml:13: jinja[invalid]: An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'ansible.builtin.template'. Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: Unhandled exception when retrieving template_vars:
'ns_vars' is undefined. 'ns_vars' is undefined. Unhandled exception when retrieving template_vars:
'ns_vars' is undefined. 'ns_vars' is undefined
You can skip specific rules or tags by adding them to your configuration file:
# .config/ansible-lint.yml
warn_list:  # or 'skip_list' to silence them completely
  - jinja[invalid]  # Rule that looks inside jinja2 templates.

              Rule Violation Summary               
 count tag            profile rule associated tags 
     1 jinja[invalid] basic   formatting           

Failed after min profile: 1 failure(s), 0 warning(s) on 1 files.