From 7d87a8a213c3241124350aa4fa631b98cf6f260d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shubham82 <shubham.kuchhal@india.nec.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 14:49:54 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Backport #6528 [CA] Fix expectedToRegister to respect
 instances with nil status into CA1.29

---
 cluster-autoscaler/clusterstate/clusterstate.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cluster-autoscaler/clusterstate/clusterstate.go b/cluster-autoscaler/clusterstate/clusterstate.go
index fc8602f58607..54002840ef60 100644
--- a/cluster-autoscaler/clusterstate/clusterstate.go
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/clusterstate/clusterstate.go
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ func getNotRegisteredNodes(allNodes []*apiv1.Node, cloudProviderNodeInstances ma
 }
 
 func expectedToRegister(instance cloudprovider.Instance) bool {
-	return instance.Status != nil && instance.Status.State != cloudprovider.InstanceDeleting && instance.Status.ErrorInfo == nil
+	return instance.Status == nil || (instance.Status.State != cloudprovider.InstanceDeleting && instance.Status.ErrorInfo == nil)
 }
 
 // Calculates which of the registered nodes in Kubernetes that do not exist in cloud provider.