Pod Stuck in terminating state and unable to remove finalizers

Issue

• After hardware failure pod has remained in a Terminating state even though the node no longer exists
• Force delete pod with --grace-period=0 is not working
• Unable to remove the finalizers
• A namespace label SPK-DNS is enabled and preventing the finalizers to be removed
• spk-webhook-deployment pod under kube-system namespace is trying to update the dnsPolicy and the dnsConfig from the troubled pod that is in Terminating state.

2023-05-05T05:09:26.997311959Z I0505 05:09:26.997280       1 webhook.go:144] AdmissionReview for Kind=/v1, Kind=Pod, Namespace=<namespace> Name=<pod_name> (pod_name) UID=<UID> patchOperation=UPDATE UserInfo={system:serviceaccount:openshift-operators:<user> 2b25a3fc-59d1-4e7c-9757-306d11590cc5 [system:serviceaccounts system:serviceaccounts:openshift-operators system:authenticated] map[]}
2023-05-05T05:09:26.997354404Z I0505 05:09:26.997324       1 webhook.go:156] AdmissionResponse: patch=[{“op”:“replace”,“path”:“/spec/dnsPolicy”,“value”:“None”},{“op”:“add”,“path”:“/spec/dnsConfig”,“value”:{“nameservers”:[“<IP_Address_of_the_NameServer>”],“searches”:[“<name>.svc.cluster.local”,“svc.cluster.local”,“cluster.local”],“options”:[{“name”:“ndots”,“value”:“5"}]}}]

Error

$ oc patch pod <Pod_Name> -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}'
The Pod "<Pod_name>" is invalid: spec: Forbidden: pod updates may not change fields other than `spec.containers[*].image`, `spec.initContainers[*].image`, `spec.activeDeadlineSeconds` or `spec.tolerations` (only additions to existing tolerations)
  core.PodSpec{
        ... // 5 identical fields
        TerminationGracePeriodSeconds: &30,
        ActiveDeadlineSeconds:         nil,
-       DNSPolicy:                     "None",
+       DNSPolicy:                     "ClusterFirst",
        NodeSelector:                  nil,
        ServiceAccountName:            "default",
        ... // 12 identical fields
        Priority:         &0,
        PreemptionPolicy: &"PreemptLowerPriority",
-       DNSConfig: &core.PodDNSConfig{
-               Nameservers: []string{"IP_Address_of_nameserver"},
-               Searches: []string{
-                       "<name>.svc.cluster.local", "svc.cluster.local",
-                       "cluster.local",
-               },
-               Options: []core.PodDNSConfigOption{{Name: "ndots", Value: &"5"}},
-       },
+       DNSConfig:        nil,
        ReadinessGates:   nil,
        RuntimeClassName: nil,
        ... // 3 identical fields
  }