diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/go-apply-patch.sh b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/go-apply-patch.sh
index 12cf6af095..3386413e5f 100755
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/go-apply-patch.sh
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/go-apply-patch.sh
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ git -C ~/flatcar-sdk/src/third_party/portage-stable checkout -B "${BASE_BRANCH}"
 pushd ~/flatcar-sdk/src/third_party/coreos-overlay >/dev/null || exit
 git checkout -B "${branch}" "github/${BASE_BRANCH}"
 
-versionOld=$(sed -n "s/^DIST go\(${GO_VERSION}.[0-9]*\).*/\1/p" dev-lang/go/Manifest | sort -ruV | head -n1)
-[[ "${VERSION_NEW}" = "${versionOld}" ]] && echo "already the latest Go, nothing to do" && exit
+VERSION_OLD=$(sed -n "s/^DIST go\(${GO_VERSION}.[0-9]*\).*/\1/p" dev-lang/go/Manifest | sort -ruV | head -n1)
+[[ "${VERSION_NEW}" = "${VERSION_OLD}" ]] && echo "already the latest Go, nothing to do" && exit
 
 pushd "dev-lang/go" >/dev/null || exit
-git mv $(ls -1 go-${versionOld}*.ebuild | sort -ruV | head -n1) "go-${VERSION_NEW}.ebuild"
+git mv $(ls -1 go-${VERSION_OLD}*.ebuild | sort -ruV | head -n1) "go-${VERSION_NEW}.ebuild"
 popd >/dev/null || exit
 
 function enter() ( cd ../../..; exec cork enter -- $@ )
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ enter ebuild "/mnt/host/source/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/dev-lang/go/go-${V
 # We can only create the actual commit in the actual source directory, not under the SDK.
 # So create a format-patch, and apply to the actual source.
 git add dev-lang/go/go-${VERSION_NEW}* metadata
-git commit -a -m "dev-lang/go: Upgrade Go ${versionOld} to ${VERSION_NEW}"
+git commit -a -m "dev-lang/go: Upgrade Go ${VERSION_OLD} to ${VERSION_NEW}"
 
 # Generate metadata after the main commit was done.
 enter /mnt/host/source/src/scripts/update_metadata --commit coreos
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ git fetch origin
 git checkout -B "${BASE_BRANCH}" "origin/${BASE_BRANCH}"
 git am ~/flatcar-sdk/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/0*.patch
 
-echo ::set-output name=VERSION_OLD::"${versionOld}"
+echo ::set-output name=VERSION_OLD::"${VERSION_OLD}"