diff --git a/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go b/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
index 85019a4dea7..4181a1a2641 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/podautoscaler/horizontal.go
@@ -936,7 +936,6 @@ func convertDesiredReplicasWithRules(currentReplicas, desiredReplicas, hpaMinRep
 	var possibleLimitingReason string
 
 	minimumAllowedReplicas = hpaMinReplicas
-	possibleLimitingReason = "the desired replica count is less than the minimum replica count"
 
 	// Do not upscale too much to prevent incorrect rapid increase of the number of master replicas caused by
 	// bogus CPU usage report from heapster/kubelet (like in issue #32304).
@@ -944,7 +943,6 @@ func convertDesiredReplicasWithRules(currentReplicas, desiredReplicas, hpaMinRep
 
 	if hpaMaxReplicas > scaleUpLimit {
 		maximumAllowedReplicas = scaleUpLimit
-
 		possibleLimitingCondition = "ScaleUpLimit"
 		possibleLimitingReason = "the desired replica count is increasing faster than the maximum scale rate"
 	} else {
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_windows.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_windows.go
index e4a88b86b9b..b80586b89e2 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_windows.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/container_manager_windows.go
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ func (cm *containerManagerImpl) Start(node *v1.Node,
 
 // NewContainerManager creates windows container manager.
 func NewContainerManager(mountUtil mount.Interface, cadvisorInterface cadvisor.Interface, nodeConfig NodeConfig, failSwapOn bool, devicePluginEnabled bool, recorder record.EventRecorder) (ContainerManager, error) {
-	var capacity = v1.ResourceList{}
 	// It is safe to invoke `MachineInfo` on cAdvisor before logically initializing cAdvisor here because
 	// machine info is computed and cached once as part of cAdvisor object creation.
 	// But `RootFsInfo` and `ImagesFsInfo` are not available at this moment so they will be called later during manager starts
@@ -84,7 +83,7 @@ func NewContainerManager(mountUtil mount.Interface, cadvisorInterface cadvisor.I
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	capacity = cadvisor.CapacityFromMachineInfo(machineInfo)
+	capacity := cadvisor.CapacityFromMachineInfo(machineInfo)
 
 	return &containerManagerImpl{
 		capacity:          capacity,