diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apiserver/customresource_handler.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apiserver/customresource_handler.go
index 4f459f25ee1..4e15edd708d 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apiserver/customresource_handler.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apiserver/customresource_handler.go
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ func (r *crdHandler) getOrCreateServingInfoFor(uid types.UID, name string) (*crd
 					if err := apiservervalidation.ConvertJSONSchemaPropsWithPostProcess(&statusSchema, openapiSchema, apiservervalidation.StripUnsupportedFormatsPostProcess); err != nil {
 						return nil, err
 					}
-					statusValidator = validate.NewSchemaValidator(openapiSchema, nil, "", strfmt.Default, validate.DisableObjectArrayTypeCheck(true))
+					statusValidator = validate.NewSchemaValidator(openapiSchema, nil, "", strfmt.Default)
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apiserver/validation/validation.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apiserver/validation/validation.go
index d8944c6e9bc..fd661f92640 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apiserver/validation/validation.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apiserver/validation/validation.go
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func NewSchemaValidator(customResourceValidation *apiextensions.CustomResourceVa
 			return nil, nil, err
 		}
 	}
-	return validate.NewSchemaValidator(openapiSchema, nil, "", strfmt.Default, validate.DisableObjectArrayTypeCheck(true)), openapiSchema, nil
+	return validate.NewSchemaValidator(openapiSchema, nil, "", strfmt.Default), openapiSchema, nil
 }
 
 // ValidateCustomResource validates the Custom Resource against the schema in the CustomResourceDefinition.