diff --git a/controllers/ocsinitialization/ocsinitialization_controller_test.go b/controllers/ocsinitialization/ocsinitialization_controller_test.go
index 2de547867a..a0cfc944e0 100644
--- a/controllers/ocsinitialization/ocsinitialization_controller_test.go
+++ b/controllers/ocsinitialization/ocsinitialization_controller_test.go
@@ -50,14 +50,17 @@ func getTestParams(mockNamespace bool, t *testing.T) (v1.OCSInitialization, reco
 			Namespace: request.Namespace,
 		},
 	}
-	ocsRecon := v1.OCSInitialization{
-		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
-			Name:      request.Name,
-			Namespace: request.Namespace,
-		},
-	}
 
-	return ocs, request, getReconciler(t, &ocsRecon)
+	reconciler := getReconciler(t, &ocs)
+	//The fake client stores the objects after adding a resource version to
+	//them. This is a breaking change introduced in
+	//https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/controller-runtime/pull/1306.
+	//Therefore we cannot use the fake object that we provided as input to the
+	//the fake client and should use the object obtained from the Get
+	//operation.
+	_ = reconciler.Client.Get(context.TODO(), request.NamespacedName, &ocs)
+
+	return ocs, request, reconciler
 }
 
 func getReconciler(t *testing.T, objs ...client.Object) OCSInitializationReconciler {