Merge pull request #4222 from k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot/cherry-pick-…

…4211-to-release-1.10

[release-1.10] eliminate short-circuiting in logic to add/remove finalizers

controllers/azuremanagedcontrolplane_controller.go

@@ -224,8 +224,9 @@ func (amcpr *AzureManagedControlPlaneReconciler) reconcileNormal(ctx context.Con
 	log.Info("Reconciling AzureManagedControlPlane")
 
 	// Remove deprecated Cluster finalizer if it exists, if the AzureManagedControlPlane doesn't have our finalizer, add it.
-	if controllerutil.RemoveFinalizer(scope.ControlPlane, infrav1.ClusterFinalizer) ||
-		controllerutil.AddFinalizer(scope.ControlPlane, infrav1.ManagedClusterFinalizer) {
+	needsPatch := controllerutil.RemoveFinalizer(scope.ControlPlane, infrav1.ClusterFinalizer)
+	needsPatch = controllerutil.AddFinalizer(scope.ControlPlane, infrav1.ManagedClusterFinalizer) || needsPatch
+	if needsPatch {
 		// Register the finalizer immediately to avoid orphaning Azure resources on delete
 		if err := scope.PatchObject(ctx); err != nil {
 			amcpr.Recorder.Eventf(scope.ControlPlane, corev1.EventTypeWarning, "AzureManagedControlPlane unavailable", "failed to patch resource: %s", err)

controllers/helpers.go

@@ -656,8 +656,9 @@ func EnsureClusterIdentity(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, object conditio
 	}
 
 	// Remove deprecated finalizer if it exists, Register the finalizer immediately to avoid orphaning Azure resources on delete.
-	if controllerutil.RemoveFinalizer(identity, deprecatedClusterIdentityFinalizer(finalizerPrefix, namespace, name)) ||
-		controllerutil.AddFinalizer(identity, clusterIdentityFinalizer(finalizerPrefix, namespace, name)) {
+	needsPatch := controllerutil.RemoveFinalizer(identity, deprecatedClusterIdentityFinalizer(finalizerPrefix, namespace, name))
+	needsPatch = controllerutil.AddFinalizer(identity, clusterIdentityFinalizer(finalizerPrefix, namespace, name)) || needsPatch
+	if needsPatch {
 		// finalizers are added/removed then patch the object
 		identityHelper, err := patch.NewHelper(identity, c)
 		if err != nil {