Remove redundant copy in UpdateProvisioningRequest() method

cluster-autoscaler/provisioningrequest/provreqclient/client.go

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import (
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/labels"
-	"k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/apis/provisioningrequest/autoscaling.x-k8s.io/v1"
+	v1 "k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/apis/provisioningrequest/autoscaling.x-k8s.io/v1"
 	"k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/apis/provisioningrequest/client/clientset/versioned"
 	"k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/apis/provisioningrequest/client/informers/externalversions"
 	listers "k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/apis/provisioningrequest/client/listers/autoscaling.x-k8s.io/v1"
@@ -130,12 +130,7 @@ func (c *ProvisioningRequestClient) UpdateProvisioningRequest(pr *v1.Provisionin
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), provisioningRequestClientCallTimeout)
 	defer cancel()
 
-	// UpdateStatus API call on a copy of the PR with cleared Spec field ensures that
-	// the default null template.metadata.creationTimestamp field of PodTemplateSpec
-	// will not generate false error logs as a side effect.
-	prCopy := pr.DeepCopy()
-	prCopy.Spec = v1.ProvisioningRequestSpec{}
-	updatedPr, err := c.client.AutoscalingV1().ProvisioningRequests(prCopy.Namespace).UpdateStatus(ctx, prCopy, metav1.UpdateOptions{})
+	updatedPr, err := c.client.AutoscalingV1().ProvisioningRequests(pr.Namespace).UpdateStatus(ctx, pr, metav1.UpdateOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
 		return pr, err
 	}