diff --git a/hack/.staticcheck_failures b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
index 9439afba555..f3886e900bb 100644
--- a/hack/.staticcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
@@ -225,12 +225,10 @@ vendor/k8s.io/kube-aggregator/pkg/apis/apiregistration/v1/helper
 vendor/k8s.io/kube-aggregator/pkg/controllers/autoregister
 vendor/k8s.io/kube-aggregator/pkg/controllers/openapi/aggregator
 vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/annotate
-vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/apply
 vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/certificates
 vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/config
 vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/edit
 vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/exec
-vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/label
 vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/proxy
 vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/rollingupdate
 vendor/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/scale
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/generic/registry/dryrun.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/generic/registry/dryrun.go
index 3ff84038006..b0b59cf8205 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/generic/registry/dryrun.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/registry/generic/registry/dryrun.go
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ func (s *DryRunnableStorage) GuaranteedUpdate(
 			return err
 		}
 		rev, err := s.Versioner().ObjectResourceVersion(ptrToType)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
 		out, _, err := tryUpdate(ptrToType, storage.ResponseMeta{ResourceVersion: rev})
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/apply/apply.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/apply/apply.go
index 53724a8744d..c208291ce70 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/apply/apply.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/apply/apply.go
@@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ func (o *ApplyOptions) Complete(f cmdutil.Factory, cmd *cobra.Command) error {
 
 	o.OpenAPISchema, _ = f.OpenAPISchema()
 	o.Validator, err = f.Validator(cmdutil.GetFlagBool(cmd, "validate"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	o.Builder = f.NewBuilder()
 	o.Mapper, err = f.ToRESTMapper()
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/label/label.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/label/label.go
index 22d26cb5f09..6e640246502 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/label/label.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/kubectl/pkg/cmd/label/label.go
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ func (o *LabelOptions) Complete(f cmdutil.Factory, cmd *cobra.Command, args []st
 	}
 	o.resources = resources
 	o.newLabels, o.removeLabels, err = parseLabels(labelArgs)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 
 	if o.list && len(o.outputFormat) > 0 {
 		return fmt.Errorf("--list and --output may not be specified together")