Merge pull request #37038 from ymqytw/retry_old_patch_after_new_patch_fail

Automatic merge from submit-queue

Fix kubectl Stratigic Merge Patch compatibility

As @smarterclayton pointed out in [comment1](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35647#pullrequestreview-8290820) and [comment2](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35647#pullrequestreview-8290847) in PR #35647,
we cannot assume the API servers publish version and they shares the same version.

This PR removes all the calls of GetServerSupportedSMPatchVersion().
Change the behavior of `apply` and `edit` to:
Retrying with the old patch version, if the new version fails.
Default other usage of SMPatch to the new version, since they don't update list of primitives.

fixes #36916

cc: @pwittrock @smarterclayton

pkg/controller/volume/attachdetach/statusupdater/node_status_updater.go

@@ -59,10 +59,6 @@ type nodeStatusUpdater struct {
 }
 
 func (nsu *nodeStatusUpdater) UpdateNodeStatuses() error {
-	smPatchVersion, err := strategicpatch.GetServerSupportedSMPatchVersion(nsu.kubeClient.Discovery())
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
 	nodesToUpdate := nsu.actualStateOfWorld.GetVolumesToReportAttached()
 	for nodeName, attachedVolumes := range nodesToUpdate {
 		nodeObj, exists, err := nsu.nodeInformer.GetStore().GetByKey(string(nodeName))
@@ -111,8 +107,9 @@ func (nsu *nodeStatusUpdater) UpdateNodeStatuses() error {
 				err)
 		}
 
+		// Defaulting to SMPatchVersion_1_5 is safe, since updateNodeStatus doesn't update any lists of primitives
 		patchBytes, err :=
-			strategicpatch.CreateStrategicMergePatch(oldData, newData, node, smPatchVersion)
+			strategicpatch.CreateStrategicMergePatch(oldData, newData, node, strategicpatch.SMPatchVersion_1_5)
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
 				"failed to CreateStrategicMergePatch for node %q. %v",