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 d8723e69126..6bad06de2be 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
@@ -104,13 +104,11 @@ func (r *crdHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 	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)