diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/apiclient/wait.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/apiclient/wait.go
index 3b309d0e2c6..43c6dc5657a 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/apiclient/wait.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/util/apiclient/wait.go
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ func (w *KubeWaiter) WaitForHealthyKubelet(initalTimeout time.Duration, healthzE
 // WaitForKubeletAndFunc waits primarily for the function f to execute, even though it might take some time. If that takes a long time, and the kubelet
 // /healthz continuously are unhealthy, kubeadm will error out after a period of exponential backoff
 func (w *KubeWaiter) WaitForKubeletAndFunc(f func() error) error {
-	errorChan := make(chan error)
+	errorChan := make(chan error, 1)
 
 	go func(errC chan error, waiter Waiter) {
 		if err := waiter.WaitForHealthyKubelet(40*time.Second, fmt.Sprintf("http://localhost:%d/healthz", kubeadmconstants.KubeletHealthzPort)); err != nil {