diff --git a/hack/.golint_failures b/hack/.golint_failures
index 00b0b175e44..b304770dc73 100644
--- a/hack/.golint_failures
+++ b/hack/.golint_failures
@@ -416,7 +416,6 @@ plugin/pkg/admission/resourcequota/apis/resourcequota/v1alpha1
 plugin/pkg/admission/security
 plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy
 plugin/pkg/admission/serviceaccount
-plugin/pkg/admission/storageclass/setdefault
 plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer/node
 plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer/rbac
 staging/src/k8s.io/api/admission/v1beta1
diff --git a/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/BUILD b/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/BUILD
index 65d3dcfc755..b4fae4a1541 100644
--- a/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/BUILD
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ go_library(
         "//plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy:go_default_library",
         "//plugin/pkg/admission/securitycontext/scdeny:go_default_library",
         "//plugin/pkg/admission/serviceaccount:go_default_library",
+        "//plugin/pkg/admission/storage/storageclass/setdefault:go_default_library",
         "//plugin/pkg/admission/storage/storageobjectinuseprotection:go_default_library",
-        "//plugin/pkg/admission/storageclass/setdefault:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/golang/glog:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/pborman/uuid:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/spf13/pflag:go_default_library",
diff --git a/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/plugins.go b/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/plugins.go
index f3d50f03793..75095b20d1f 100644
--- a/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/plugins.go
+++ b/pkg/kubeapiserver/options/plugins.go
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/securitycontext/scdeny"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/serviceaccount"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/storage/storageclass/setdefault"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/storage/storageobjectinuseprotection"
-	"k8s.io/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/storageclass/setdefault"
 
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/sets"
 	"k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/admission"
diff --git a/plugin/pkg/admission/storage/storageclass/setdefault/admission.go b/plugin/pkg/admission/storage/storageclass/setdefault/admission.go
index 6a9fe197a08..70281518821 100644
--- a/plugin/pkg/admission/storage/storageclass/setdefault/admission.go
+++ b/plugin/pkg/admission/storage/storageclass/setdefault/admission.go
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
+	// PluginName is the name of this admission controller plugin
 	PluginName = "DefaultStorageClass"
 )
 
@@ -84,16 +85,16 @@ func (a *claimDefaulterPlugin) ValidateInitialization() error {
 // 1.  Find available StorageClasses.
 // 2.  Figure which is the default
 // 3.  Write to the PVClaim
-func (c *claimDefaulterPlugin) Admit(a admission.Attributes) error {
-	if a.GetResource().GroupResource() != api.Resource("persistentvolumeclaims") {
+func (a *claimDefaulterPlugin) Admit(attr admission.Attributes) error {
+	if attr.GetResource().GroupResource() != api.Resource("persistentvolumeclaims") {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	if len(a.GetSubresource()) != 0 {
+	if len(attr.GetSubresource()) != 0 {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	pvc, ok := a.GetObject().(*api.PersistentVolumeClaim)
+	pvc, ok := attr.GetObject().(*api.PersistentVolumeClaim)
 	// if we can't convert then we don't handle this object so just return
 	if !ok {
 		return nil
@@ -106,9 +107,9 @@ func (c *claimDefaulterPlugin) Admit(a admission.Attributes) error {
 
 	glog.V(4).Infof("no storage class for claim %s (generate: %s)", pvc.Name, pvc.GenerateName)
 
-	def, err := getDefaultClass(c.lister)
+	def, err := getDefaultClass(a.lister)
 	if err != nil {
-		return admission.NewForbidden(a, err)
+		return admission.NewForbidden(attr, err)
 	}
 	if def == nil {
 		// No default class selected, do nothing about the PVC.