The genericapiserver library must wait until server.Shutdown completes so that connections are gracefully shutdown. Previously there was a race between shutting down a process (server) and closing connections. That might have resulted in some connections not being properly closed on a TCP level. This BZ doesn't require QE tests since the graceful shutdown is still broken on 4.4 because it requires a fix in the net/http2 library.
PR in the merge queue.
4.4 is in the maintenance phase of its life, so only high- and urgent-severity fixes are being merged. If this truly needs to be merged, the severity needs to be increased, otherwise we should just close this with WONTFIX.
Hi Alex, bumping the priority to high since this issue affects graceful shutdown of the servers which is important for upgrades.
Going through the PR code, per comment 0 and communication in Slack about this bug, this bug needs not QE test. 4.4.0-0.nightly-2021-01-25-064916 includes the PR, the payload page of it shows good "Succeeded" results under "Tests:", thus moving to VERIFIED directly, skipping manually installing an env with extra basic test.
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 (Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.4.33 bug fix and security 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/RHSA-2021:0281