diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh
index 0160b3eb2e8..e9abdfeec7a 100755
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/examples/client-go/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
 
 SCRIPT_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/..
-CODEGEN_PKG=${CODEGEN_PKG:-$(cd "${SCRIPT_ROOT}"; ls -d -1 ./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator 2>/dev/null || echo ../code-generator)}
+CODEGEN_PKG=${CODEGEN_PKG:-$(cd "${SCRIPT_ROOT}"; ls -d -1 ./vendor/k8s.io/code-generator 2>/dev/null || echo ../../../code-generator)}
 
 source "${CODEGEN_PKG}/kube_codegen.sh"