Description of problem:

Trident deployment in customers pre-production OCP 4.5.13 cluster.

Typical message where the object will not get GC'd:

I1019 19:20:36.029255       1 garbagecollector.go:459] object garbagecollector.objectReference{OwnerReference:v1.OwnerReference{APIVersion:"apps/v1", Kind:"DaemonSet", Name:"trident-csi", UID:"26deb7d0-7dc7-4907-924d-1444813b8fbe", Controller:(*bool)(0xc00177adf0), BlockOwnerDeletion:(*bool)(0xc00177adf1)}, Namespace:"trident"} has at least one existing owner: []v1.OwnerReference{v1.OwnerReference{APIVersion:"trident.netapp.io/v1", Kind:"TridentProvisioner", Name:"trident", UID:"2e0df0a5-0b40-4f9e-a356-a56c997b82d4", Controller:(*bool)(0xc005c36627), BlockOwnerDeletion:(*bool)(nil)}}, will not garbage collect

4 Minutes later, is gets deleted:

I1019 19:24:45.442874       1 garbagecollector.go:517] delete object [apps/v1/DaemonSet, namespace: trident, name: trident-csi, uid: 26deb7d0-7dc7-4907-924d-1444813b8fbe] with propagation policy Background

TridentProvisioner still exists and has not been modified:

# oc get TridentProvisioner -n trident -o yaml trident
apiVersion: trident.netapp.io/v1
kind: TridentProvisioner
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2020-09-30T22:20:32Z"
  generation: 1
  name: trident
  namespace: trident
  resourceVersion: "88013962"
  selfLink: /apis/trident.netapp.io/v1/namespaces/trident/tridentprovisioners/trident
  uid: 2e0df0a5-0b40-4f9e-a356-a56c997b82d4
spec:
  debug: false
  silenceAutosupport: true
status:
  currentInstallationParams:
    IPv6: "false"
    autosupportImage: netapp/trident-autosupport:20.07.0
    autosupportProxy: ""
    debug: "false"
    imagePullSecrets: []
    imageRegistry: quay.io
    k8sTimeout: "30"
    kubeletDir: /var/lib/kubelet
    logFormat: text
    silenceAutosupport: "true"
    tridentImage: netapp/trident:20.07.1
  message: Trident installed
  status: Installed
  version: v20.07.1


I can't find any reference to uid 26deb7d0-7dc7-4907-924d-1444813b8fbe / trident-csi daemonset being removed in the audit logs. 

Only thing I see is 2 create events for cluster role and binding a little over 2 minutes after the GC.

./openshift-apiserver/{"kind":"Event","apiVersion":"audit.k8s.io/v1","level":"Metadata","auditID":"367e2719-f3da-4f14-9f9d-e4f93c442da8","stage":"ResponseComplete","requestURI":"/apis/authorization.openshift.io/v1/clusterroles","verb":"create","user":{"username":"system:serviceaccount:trident:trident-operator","groups":["system:serviceaccounts","system:serviceaccounts:trident","system:authenticated"]},"sourceIPs":["142.34.194.9","10.97.0.1"],"userAgent":"trident-operator/v0.0.0 (linux/amd64) kubernetes/$Format","objectRef":{"resource":"clusterroles","name":"trident-csi","apiGroup":"authorization.openshift.io","apiVersion":"v1"},"responseStatus":{"metadata":{},"code":201},"requestReceivedTimestamp":"2020-10-19T19:27:00.681438Z","stageTimestamp":"2020-10-19T19:27:00.721815Z","annotations":{"authorization.k8s.io/decision":"allow","authorization.k8s.io/reason":"RBAC: allowed by ClusterRoleBinding \"trident-operator\" of ClusterRole \"trident-operator\" to ServiceAccount \"trident-operator/trident\""}}

./openshift-apiserver/{"kind":"Event","apiVersion":"audit.k8s.io/v1","level":"Metadata","auditID":"a317a0dd-cad3-4070-984b-be95982d1a91","stage":"ResponseComplete","requestURI":"/apis/authorization.openshift.io/v1/clusterrolebindings","verb":"create","user":{"username":"system:serviceaccount:trident:trident-operator","groups":["system:serviceaccounts","system:serviceaccounts:trident","system:authenticated"]},"sourceIPs":["142.34.194.9","10.97.0.1"],"userAgent":"trident-operator/v0.0.0 (linux/amd64) kubernetes/$Format","objectRef":{"resource":"clusterrolebindings","name":"trident-csi","apiGroup":"authorization.openshift.io","apiVersion":"v1"},"responseStatus":{"metadata":{},"code":201},"requestReceivedTimestamp":"2020-10-19T19:27:00.734474Z","stageTimestamp":"2020-10-19T19:27:00.784549Z","annotations":{"authorization.k8s.io/decision":"allow","authorization.k8s.io/reason":"RBAC: allowed by ClusterRoleBinding \"trident-operator\" of ClusterRole \"trident-operator\" to ServiceAccount \"trident-operator/trident\""}}



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Random - based on the symptoms of trident / storage breaking it has happened before, but this is the first time we've captutred data 

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Trident objects are recreated causing existing PVCs to disconnect / fail. Data is not lost, the secrets need to be updated so the pods can remount their storage again.


Expected results:

Should not be garbage collecting.


Additional info: