diff --git a/cluster/test-e2e.sh b/cluster/test-e2e.sh
index b42f8278134..1c0c0c134c1 100755
--- a/cluster/test-e2e.sh
+++ b/cluster/test-e2e.sh
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kube-util.sh"
 
 echo "Testing cluster with provider: ${KUBERNETES_PROVIDER}" 1>&2
 
-TEST_ARGS="$@"
-
 echo "Running e2e tests:" 1>&2
-echo "./hack/ginkgo-e2e.sh ${TEST_ARGS}" 1>&2
+echo "./hack/ginkgo-e2e.sh $*" 1>&2
 exec "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/ginkgo-e2e.sh" "$@"
diff --git a/hack/.shellcheck_failures b/hack/.shellcheck_failures
index 7c9add18f0f..84d9b802db8 100644
--- a/hack/.shellcheck_failures
+++ b/hack/.shellcheck_failures
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 ./cluster/gce/util.sh
 ./cluster/log-dump/log-dump.sh
 ./cluster/pre-existing/util.sh
-./cluster/test-e2e.sh
 ./cluster/validate-cluster.sh
 ./hack/lib/test.sh
 ./test/images/image-util.sh