Multus Pods are in CrashLoopBack error while upgrading the cluster from 4.11.32 to 4.12.37

Issue

• Multus Pods are in CrashLoopBack error while upgrading the cluster from 4.11.32 to 4.12.37

• No Error's seen, logs from one of the pod

$ oc logs multus-abc
2024-02-25T05:46:36+00:00 [cnibincopy] Successfully copied files in /usr/src/multus-cni/rhel8/bin/ to /host/opt/cni/bin/upgrade_c4abcd-de00-422b-99e7-5d12345xxxxx
2024-02-25T05:46:36+00:00 [cnibincopy] Successfully moved files in /host/opt/cni/bin/upgrade_c4abcd-de00-422b-99e7-5d12345xxxxx to /host/opt/cni/bin/
2024-02-25T05:46:37+00:00 WARN: {unknown parameter "-"}
2024-02-25T05:46:37+00:00 Entrypoint skipped copying Multus binary.
2024-02-25T05:46:37+00:00 Generating Multus configuration file using files in /host/var/run/multus/cni/net.d...
2024-02-25T05:46:37+00:00 Using MASTER_PLUGIN: 80-openshift-network.conf

• Network operator is in degraded state with below error

network                                    4.11.32   True        True          False      535d    DaemonSet "/openshift-multus/multus" update is rolling out (73 out of 89 updated)

• Pod status under openshift-multus namespace

multus-abc                                  0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   8 (4m14s ago)    21m     10.xxx.xxx.xxx   infra.example.com        <none>           <none>
multus-czzzz                                  0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   12 (64s ago)     37m     10.yyy.yyy.yyy   worker.example.com     <none>           <none>
multus-dxxx                                  0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   8 (4m19s ago)    21m     10.zzz.zzz.zzz   worker1.example.com

• Same logs are seen when checked with crictl

crictl logs 123456abcdef
2024-02-25T05:55:21+00:00 [cnibincopy] Successfully copied files in /usr/src/multus-cni/rhel8/bin/ to /host/opt/cni/bin/upgrade_dfffff-0000-111-789-c123456abcdef
2024-02-25T05:55:21+00:00 [cnibincopy] Successfully moved files in /host/opt/cni/bin/upgrade_dfffff-0000-111-789-c123456abcdef to /host/opt/cni/bin/
2024-02-25T05:55:21+00:00 WARN: {unknown parameter "-"}
2024-02-25T05:55:21+00:00 Entrypoint skipped copying Multus binary.
2024-02-25T05:55:21+00:00 Generating Multus configuration file using files in /host/var/run/multus/cni/net.d...
2024-02-25T05:55:21+00:00 Using MASTER_PLUGIN: 80-openshift-network.conf