We can input invalid value to zone field in gcpproviderSpec

    4.18.0-0.nightly-2024-10-16-094159

    Always

    1.Edit machineset with invalid zone value , scale machineset
   
    

    Machineset edited successfully 

Machines stuck with blank status and do not fail 

miyadav@miyadav-thinkpadx1carbongen8:~/multifieldsgcp$ oc get machines
NAME                                 PHASE     TYPE            REGION        ZONE            AGE
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-master-0         Running   n2-standard-4   us-central1   us-central1-a   62m
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-master-1         Running   n2-standard-4   us-central1   us-central1-b   62m
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-master-2         Running   n2-standard-4   us-central1   us-central1-c   62m
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-a-9kmdv   Running   n2-standard-4   us-central1   us-central1-a   57m
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-b-srj28   Running   n2-standard-4   us-central1   us-central1-b   57m
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-c-828v9   Running   n2-standard-4   us-central1   us-central1-c   57m
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-f-7d9bx                                                           11m
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-f-bcr7v   Running   n2-standard-4   us-central1   us-central1-f   20m
miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-f-tjfjk                                                           7m3s

    machines status can report failed status and the reason , may be timeout instead of waiting continuously .

    logs are present in machine-controller 
"E1018 03:55:39.735293       1 controller.go:316] miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-f-7d9bx: failed to check if machine exists: unable to verify project/zone exists: openshift-qe/us-central1-in; err: googleapi: Error 400: Invalid value for field 'zone': 'us-central1-in'. Unknown zone., invalid"

the machines will be stuck in deletion also because of no status.


for Invalid ProjectID - Errors in logs - 
urce project OPENSHIFT-QE.
Details:
[
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help",
    "links": [
      {
        "description": "Google developers console",
        "url": "https://console.developers.google.com"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo",
    "domain": "googleapis.com",
    "metadatas": {
      "consumer": "projects/OPENSHIFT-QE",
      "service": "compute.googleapis.com"
    },
    "reason": "CONSUMER_INVALID"
  }
]
, forbidden
E1018 08:59:40.405238       1 controller.go:316] "msg"="Reconciler error" "error"="unable to verify project/zone exists: OPENSHIFT-QE/us-central1-f; err: googleapi: Error 403: Permission denied on resource project OPENSHIFT-QE.\nDetails:\n[\n  {\n    \"@type\": \"type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.Help\",\n    \"links\": [\n      {\n        \"description\": \"Google developers console\",\n        \"url\": \"https://console.developers.google.com\"\n      }\n    ]\n  },\n  {\n    \"@type\": \"type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo\",\n    \"domain\": \"googleapis.com\",\n    \"metadatas\": {\n      \"consumer\": \"projects/OPENSHIFT-QE\",\n      \"service\": \"compute.googleapis.com\"\n    },\n    \"reason\": \"CONSUMER_INVALID\"\n  }\n]\n, forbidden" "controller"="machine-controller" "name"="miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-f-dcnf5" "namespace"="openshift-machine-api" "object"={"name":"miyadav-1809g-7bdh4-worker-f-dcnf5","namespace":"openshift-machine-api"} "reconcileID"="293f9d09-1387-4702-8b67-2d209316585e"