From c45940ecdb2ff61ab2ebc8e1eb1db513b7666669 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roman Bednar <rbednar@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:56:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] csi: raise kubelet CSI init backoff to cover ~140s DNS delays

- bump init backoff to Duration=30ms, Factor=8 (Steps=6) to yield ~140s total
- prevent kubelet restarts when DNS is blackholed and NSS must fall back to myhostname
- keep CSI/CSINode initialization alive long enough to complete in ARO DNS-failure scenarios
---
 pkg/volume/csi/csi_plugin.go | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/volume/csi/csi_plugin.go b/pkg/volume/csi/csi_plugin.go
index 902f31e9911..2b4ea04a98e 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/csi/csi_plugin.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/csi/csi_plugin.go
@@ -385,8 +385,8 @@ func initializeCSINode(host volume.VolumeHost, csiDriverInformer cache.SharedInd
 		// after max retry steps.
 		initBackoff := wait.Backoff{
 			Steps:    6,
-			Duration: 15 * time.Millisecond,
-			Factor:   6.0,
+			Duration: 30 * time.Millisecond,
+			Factor:   8.0,
 			Jitter:   0.1,
 		}
 		err = wait.ExponentialBackoff(initBackoff, func() (bool, error) {