sync: release 0.17.x

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What type of PR is this?

/kind cleanup

Any specific area of the project related to this PR?

/area driver-kmod

Does this PR require a change in the driver versions?

What this PR does / why we need it:

Cherry picks #1884 from master.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #

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Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?:

NONE

[github-actions]

Please double check driver/API_VERSION file. See versioning.

/hold

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/milestone 7.2.1+driver

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/reopen

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@FedeDP: Reopened this PR.

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/unhold