markdownlint: MD046 - Triggers violation incorrectly

I’ve been using markdownlint-cli in my docs repositories. I upgraded from version 0.15.0 to latest (0.21.0), which makes the rule MD046 available.

This rule seems to be triggering violations incorrectly. Below is a snippet of content. Please ignore the \ at the beginning of code block fences. I added those so that the entire snippet below gets rendered together on github.

* Edit `path/to/file.xml` and add the following line beneath `<!-- Add new files`:

\```xml
<file>META-INF/filename.xml</file>
\```

* Create a new interface in `src/main/java` called `com.example.tc.TermsAndConditionService`.

* Add the following method definitions to the interface: _(**Hint:** don't forget to define each method with javadoc comments)_

\```java
a snippet of java code here
\```

MD046 rule is complaining about the following line:

* Create a new interface in `src/main/java` called `com.example.tc.TermsAndConditionService`.

The error message is:

$ markdownlint ../docs/ ./versioned_docs/
../docs/path/to/doc.md:43 MD046/code-block-style Code block style [Expected: fenced; Actual: indented]

Notice that the line it is reporting problem does not have code blocks. It only has inline code wrapped with backticks. I’m getting similar errors being reported on a lot of other lines.

I’ve checked the existing issues related to MD046 but they didn’t seem to mention the type of issues I’ve explained here. Hopefully this is not a duplicate issue.