diff --git a/hack/.staticcheck_failures b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
index 91385fed8f7..4921e143c71 100644
--- a/hack/.staticcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 cluster/images/etcd/migrate
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/apitesting/roundtrip
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/validation
-vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json
 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/json/meta_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json/meta_test.go
index f4e34a22d5d..5c5dda89e66 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json/meta_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json/meta_test.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func TestSimpleMetaFactoryInterpret(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// unparsable
-	gvk, err = factory.Interpret([]byte(`{`))
+	_, err = factory.Interpret([]byte(`{`))
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("unexpected non-error")
 	}