From a40060721bd2cf2091dde1461a828af86686345c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shubham82 <shubham.kuchhal@india.nec.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 14:55:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Backport #6528 [CA] Fix expectedToRegister to respect
 instances with nil status into CA1.28

---
 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 a190084c8177..c87794258918 100644
--- a/cluster-autoscaler/clusterstate/clusterstate.go
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/clusterstate/clusterstate.go
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ 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.