Assisted Installed fails to deploy spoke compact cluster

Description of the problem:

As a part of Altiostar deployment, when deploying the spoke compact cluster (3 masters only) deployment fails (times out). After investigation hive-operator pod is crashing and nodes report unreachability. If agents are manually restarted and hive-operator pod is re-created there is a new attempt to deploy cluster until hive-operator crash again.

How reproducible:

Occasional, first noticed with 4.8.32 two weeks ago, now happening on 4.8.43

ACM 2.4.6

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start deploying compact cluster

2. Wait for agents to register

3.

Actual results:

Deployment does not proceed with 

• The cluster has hosts that are not ready to install.

hive-operator is crashing with following in a log:
time="2022-08-10T11:29:30Z" level=info msg="reconcile complete" controller=hive elapsedMillis=620 elapsedMillisGT=0 outcome=unspecified
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x8 pc=0x123e5fc]
 

Expected results:

Deployment continues