diff --git a/pkg/controller/workloadspread/workloadspread_controller.go b/pkg/controller/workloadspread/workloadspread_controller.go
index 8292f4283b..4d558cf576 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/workloadspread/workloadspread_controller.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/workloadspread/workloadspread_controller.go
@@ -289,6 +289,9 @@ func (r *ReconcileWorkloadSpread) getReplicasPathList(ws *appsv1alpha1.WorkloadS
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	gv, err := schema.ParseGroupVersion(ws.Spec.TargetReference.APIVersion)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	for _, wl := range whiteList.Workloads {
 		if wl.GroupVersion() != gv || wl.GroupVersionKind.Kind != ws.Spec.TargetReference.Kind {
 			continue
@@ -313,6 +316,9 @@ func (r *ReconcileWorkloadSpread) getPodsForWorkloadSpread(ws *appsv1alpha1.Work
 		pods, workloadReplicas, err = r.getPodJob(targetRef, ws.Namespace)
 	default:
 		pods, workloadReplicas, err = r.controllerFinder.GetPodsForRef(targetRef.APIVersion, targetRef.Kind, ws.Namespace, targetRef.Name, false)
+		if err != nil {
+			break
+		}
 		workloadReplicas, pods, err = r.filterWorkload(ws, pods, workloadReplicas)
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/util/workloadspread/workloadspread.go b/pkg/util/workloadspread/workloadspread.go
index 5f307754d7..64423212c0 100644
--- a/pkg/util/workloadspread/workloadspread.go
+++ b/pkg/util/workloadspread/workloadspread.go
@@ -885,7 +885,6 @@ func GenerateEmptyWorkloadObject(gvk schema.GroupVersionKind, key types.Namespac
 	return
 }
 
-// GetReplicasFromObject tries to get replicas from object by given path (default path is "spec.replcias")
 func GetReplicasFromObject(object *unstructured.Unstructured, replicasPath string) (int32, error) {
 	if replicasPath == "" {
 		return 0, nil