While debugging why kube-rbac-proxy-crio pods are being re-created, we noticed that CVO is reporting a diff on the kube-rbac-proxy configmap in the openshift-machine-config-operator namespace and that appears to be updating the configmap, triggering a rollout?

Seen on 4.19.17 at least

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    1. Create a 4.19.17 cluster
    2. Look for CVO logs like Updating ConfigMap openshift-machine-config-operator/kube-rbac-proxy due to diff
    3. Notice kube-rbac-proxy-crio pods recreating in openshift-machine-config-operator namespace. Journal logs from kubelet report that the static pod is different than the manifest and thus re-creates it.

kube-rbac-proxy-crio pods are churning in the openshift-machine-config-operator namespace    

    No changes to the configmap exists so CVO shouldn't be patching it

I0309 15:41:00.899219       1 core.go:138] Updating ConfigMap openshift-machine-config-operator/kube-rbac-proxy due to diff:   &v1.ConfigMap{
      TypeMeta: v1.TypeMeta{
-         Kind:       "",
+         Kind:       "ConfigMap",
-         APIVersion: "",
+         APIVersion: "v1",
      },
      ObjectMeta: v1.ObjectMeta{
          ... // 2 identical fields
          Namespace:                  "openshift-machine-config-operator",
          SelfLink:                   "",
-         UID:                        "04b46684-51aa-41f9-9d83-fc6161807b18",
+         UID:                        "",
-         ResourceVersion:            "109522460",
+         ResourceVersion:            "",
          Generation:                 0,
-         CreationTimestamp:          v1.Time{Time: s"2025-12-02 01:55:19 +0000 UTC"},
+         CreationTimestamp:          v1.Time{},
          DeletionTimestamp:          nil,
          DeletionGracePeriodSeconds: nil,
          ... // 2 identical fields
          OwnerReferences: {{APIVersion: "config.openshift.io/v1", Kind: "ClusterVersion", Name: "version", UID: "3a40857a-fc31-447c-9418-a28dfac22a39", ...}},
          Finalizers:      nil,
-         ManagedFields: []v1.ManagedFieldsEntry{
-             {
-                 Manager:    "cluster-version-operator",
-                 Operation:  "Update",
-                 APIVersion: "v1",