This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-4087. The following is the description of the original issue:
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The kube-state-metric pod inside the openshift-monitoring namespace is not running as expected.

On checking the logs I am able to see that there is a memory panic

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2022-11-22T09:57:17.901790234Z I1122 09:57:17.901768 1 main.go:199] Starting kube-state-metrics self metrics server: 127.0.0.1:8082
2022-11-22T09:57:17.901975837Z I1122 09:57:17.901951 1 main.go:66] levelinfomsgTLS is disabled.http2false
2022-11-22T09:57:17.902389844Z I1122 09:57:17.902291 1 main.go:210] Starting metrics server: 127.0.0.1:8081
2022-11-22T09:57:17.903191857Z I1122 09:57:17.903133 1 main.go:66] levelinfomsgTLS is disabled.http2false
2022-11-22T09:57:17.906272505Z I1122 09:57:17.906224 1 builder.go:191] Active resources: certificatesigningrequests,configmaps,cronjobs,daemonsets,deployments,endpoints,horizontalpodautoscalers,ingresses,jobs,leases,limitranges,mutatingwebhookconfigurations,namespaces,networkpolicies,nodes,persistentvolumeclaims,persistentvolumes,poddisruptionbudgets,pods,replicasets,replicationcontrollers,resourcequotas,secrets,services,statefulsets,storageclasses,validatingwebhookconfigurations,volumeattachments
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z E1122 09:57:17.917560 1 runtime.go:78] Observed a panic: "invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference" (runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference)
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z goroutine 24 [running]:
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime.logPanic(

{0x1635600, 0x2696e10})
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z /go/src/k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime/runtime.go:74 +0x7d
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime.HandleCrash({0x0, 0x0, 0xfffffffe})
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z /go/src/k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/runtime/runtime.go:48 +0x75
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z panic({0x1635600, 0x2696e10}

)
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z /usr/lib/golang/src/runtime/panic.go:1038 +0x215
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/v2/internal/store.ingressMetricFamilies.func6(0x40)
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z /go/src/k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/internal/store/ingress.go:136 +0x189
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/v2/internal/store.wrapIngressFunc.func1(

{0x17fe520, 0xc00063b590})
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z /go/src/k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/internal/store/ingress.go:175 +0x49
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/v2/pkg/metric_generator.(*FamilyGenerator).Generate(...)
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z /go/src/k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/pkg/metric_generator/generator.go:67
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/v2/pkg/metric_generator.ComposeMetricGenFuncs.func1({0x17fe520, 0xc00063b590}

)
2022-11-22T09:57:17.917758187Z /go/src/k8s.io/kube-state-metrics/pkg/metric_generator/generator.go:107 +0xd8
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Logs are attached to the support case