diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/openstack/openstack_routes_test.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/openstack/openstack_routes_test.go
index b38d7ffc25..8e47023f3b 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/openstack/openstack_routes_test.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/openstack/openstack_routes_test.go
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ func TestRoutes(t *testing.T) {
 
 func getServers(os *OpenStack) []servers.Server {
 	c, err := os.NewComputeV2()
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
 	allPages, err := servers.List(c, servers.ListOpts{}).AllPages()
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/photon/photon_test.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/photon/photon_test.go
index f798f1cc21..f8c9ad2ddc 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/photon/photon_test.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/photon/photon_test.go
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ func TestInstances(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	t.Logf("Found InstanceID(%s) = %s\n", testVM, instanceId)
 
-	instanceId, err = i.InstanceID(context.TODO(), nonExistingVM)
+	_, err = i.InstanceID(context.TODO(), nonExistingVM)
 	if err == cloudprovider.InstanceNotFound {
 		t.Logf("VM %s was not found as expected\n", nonExistingVM)
 	} else if err == nil {