diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e2c8a0ded92..faf473f4201 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
 - **General:** Improve e2e tests reliability ([#2580](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/2580))
 - **General:** Syncronize HPA annotations from ScaledObject ([#2659](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/2659))
 - **General:** Improve e2e tests to always cleanup resources in cluster ([#2584](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/2584))
+- **General:** Fix mismatched errors for updating hpa ([#2719](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/2719))
 - **Memory Scaler** Adding e2e test for the memory scaler ([#2220](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/2220))
 
 ## v.2.6.1
diff --git a/controllers/keda/hpa.go b/controllers/keda/hpa.go
index f5b1551164e..f2eb65c9828 100644
--- a/controllers/keda/hpa.go
+++ b/controllers/keda/hpa.go
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ func (r *ScaledObjectReconciler) updateHPAIfNeeded(ctx context.Context, logger l
 	// DeepDerivative ignores extra entries in arrays which makes removing the last trigger not update things, so trigger and update any time the metrics count is different.
 	if len(hpa.Spec.Metrics) != len(foundHpa.Spec.Metrics) || !equality.Semantic.DeepDerivative(hpa.Spec, foundHpa.Spec) {
 		logger.V(1).Info("Found difference in the HPA spec accordint to ScaledObject", "currentHPA", foundHpa.Spec, "newHPA", hpa.Spec)
-		if r.Client.Update(ctx, hpa) != nil {
+		if err = r.Client.Update(ctx, hpa); err != nil {
 			foundHpa.Spec = hpa.Spec
 			logger.Error(err, "Failed to update HPA", "HPA.Namespace", foundHpa.Namespace, "HPA.Name", foundHpa.Name)
 			return err
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ func (r *ScaledObjectReconciler) updateHPAIfNeeded(ctx context.Context, logger l
 
 	if !equality.Semantic.DeepDerivative(hpa.ObjectMeta.Labels, foundHpa.ObjectMeta.Labels) {
 		logger.V(1).Info("Found difference in the HPA labels accordint to ScaledObject", "currentHPA", foundHpa.ObjectMeta.Labels, "newHPA", hpa.ObjectMeta.Labels)
-		if r.Client.Update(ctx, hpa) != nil {
+		if err = r.Client.Update(ctx, hpa); err != nil {
 			foundHpa.ObjectMeta.Labels = hpa.ObjectMeta.Labels
 			logger.Error(err, "Failed to update HPA", "HPA.Namespace", foundHpa.Namespace, "HPA.Name", foundHpa.Name)
 			return err