diff --git a/hack/.staticcheck_failures b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
index 1b2b9b8e0f6..89fdb52fdd9 100644
--- a/hack/.staticcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.staticcheck_failures
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ test/integration/framework
 test/integration/garbagecollector
 test/integration/scheduler_perf
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/apitesting/roundtrip
-vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/validation
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime
 vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/json
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta/meta.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta/meta.go
index 9ca34c9fa9c..6a4116a040b 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta/meta.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta/meta.go
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ func CommonAccessor(obj interface{}) (metav1.Common, error) {
 	switch t := obj.(type) {
 	case List:
 		return t, nil
-	case metav1.ListInterface:
-		return t, nil
 	case ListMetaAccessor:
 		if m := t.GetListMeta(); m != nil {
 			return m, nil
@@ -72,8 +70,6 @@ func ListAccessor(obj interface{}) (List, error) {
 	switch t := obj.(type) {
 	case List:
 		return t, nil
-	case metav1.ListInterface:
-		return t, nil
 	case ListMetaAccessor:
 		if m := t.GetListMeta(); m != nil {
 			return m, nil
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta/restmapper_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta/restmapper_test.go
index 853404ad6c8..f168f033c70 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta/restmapper_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta/restmapper_test.go
@@ -588,23 +588,23 @@ func TestRESTMapperRESTMappingSelectsVersion(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// mismatch of version
-	mapping, err = mapper.RESTMapping(internalObjectGK, expectedGroupVersion2.Version)
+	_, err = mapper.RESTMapping(internalObjectGK, expectedGroupVersion2.Version)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("unexpected non-error")
 	}
-	mapping, err = mapper.RESTMapping(otherObjectGK, expectedGroupVersion1.Version)
+	_, err = mapper.RESTMapping(otherObjectGK, expectedGroupVersion1.Version)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("unexpected non-error")
 	}
 
 	// not in the search versions
-	mapping, err = mapper.RESTMapping(otherObjectGK, expectedGroupVersion3.Version)
+	_, err = mapper.RESTMapping(otherObjectGK, expectedGroupVersion3.Version)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("unexpected non-error")
 	}
 
 	// explicit search order
-	mapping, err = mapper.RESTMapping(otherObjectGK, expectedGroupVersion3.Version, expectedGroupVersion1.Version)
+	_, err = mapper.RESTMapping(otherObjectGK, expectedGroupVersion3.Version, expectedGroupVersion1.Version)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("unexpected non-error")
 	}