The cherry-pick-approved management is flawed since it's keeping the PR from merging as it's probably starving somewhere at the end of their PR-to-approve queue since Dec 7, 2020. Super annoying. I'm going to raise the BZ to urgent/urgent in max(10 days, the next time I look at this BZ) if that is necessary for the PR to merge.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.17 bug fix update), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:0424