diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/kube-apiextensions-server/pkg/apiserver/customresource_handler.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/kube-apiextensions-server/pkg/apiserver/customresource_handler.go
index 4a49df3664c..64f53493661 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/kube-apiextensions-server/pkg/apiserver/customresource_handler.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/kube-apiextensions-server/pkg/apiserver/customresource_handler.go
@@ -103,13 +103,11 @@ func (r *customResourceDefinitionHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *
 	if !ok {
 		// programmer error
 		panic("missing context")
-		return
 	}
 	requestInfo, ok := apirequest.RequestInfoFrom(ctx)
 	if !ok {
 		// programmer error
 		panic("missing requestInfo")
-		return
 	}
 	if !requestInfo.IsResourceRequest {
 		pathParts := splitPath(requestInfo.Path)