diff --git a/hack/.staticcheck_failures b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
index a400af284cb..4966589dcc4 100644
--- a/hack/.staticcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/validation
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json
-vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/versioning
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/httpstream/spdy
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/net
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets/types
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/versioning/versioning_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/versioning/versioning_test.go
index 14d598ff5b7..ee3058c3c79 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/versioning/versioning_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/versioning/versioning_test.go
@@ -319,15 +319,6 @@ func (s *mockSerializer) Identifier() runtime.Identifier {
 	return runtime.Identifier("mock")
 }
 
-type mockCreater struct {
-	err error
-	obj runtime.Object
-}
-
-func (c *mockCreater) New(kind schema.GroupVersionKind) (runtime.Object, error) {
-	return c.obj, c.err
-}
-
 type mockTyper struct {
 	gvks        []schema.GroupVersionKind
 	unversioned bool