Description of problem: There's a problem that has appeared in CI where "status update failed for pod /: resource name may not be empty" with log entries that look like: ``` ns/e2e-provisioning-6584 pod/hostpath-symlink-prep-e2e-provisioning-6584 node/ci-op-n1y9rzq1-17f95-5npv4-worker-c-qcqrb - never deleted - reason/FailedCreatePodSandBox Failed to create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = failed to create pod network sandbox k8s_hostpath-symlink-prep-e2e-provisioning-6584_e2e-provisioning-6584_aeb65aea-6583-458b-a6d5-309fe8441179_0(64cce15af77998c647ab18c85dee20ef8b21f08b2e0fe7a83da26c7090f2e9b6): Multus: [e2e-provisioning-6584/hostpath-symlink-prep-e2e-provisioning-6584]: error setting the networks status: SetNetworkStatus: failed to update the pod hostpath-symlink-prep-e2e-provisioning-6584 in out of cluster comm: SetNetworkStatus: failed to update the pod hostpath-symlink-prep-e2e-provisioning-6584 in out of cluster comm: status update failed for pod /: resource name may not be empty ``` How reproducible: Difficult. Appears only in CI. Steps to Reproduce: (unknown)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1957856 ***