* create a directory, not a regular file. A common pitfall is to call {@code createTempFile},
   * delete the file and create a directory in its place, but this leads a race condition which can
   * be exploited to create security vulnerabilities, especially when executable files are to be
   * written into the directory.
   *

* Increase Azure default maximumLoadBalancerRuleCount to 250. ([#72621](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72621), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* fix race condition issue for smb mount on windows ([#75371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75371), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

   * create a directory, not a regular file. A common pitfall is to call {@code createTempFile},
   * delete the file and create a directory in its place, but this leads a race condition which can
   * be exploited to create security vulnerabilities, especially when executable files are to be
   * written into the directory.
   *

    private Integer getUid(Object obj) {
      Integer uid = uids.get(obj);
      if (uid == null) {
        // One or more integer values could be skipped in the event of a race
        // to generate a UID for the same object from multiple threads, but
        // that shouldn't be a problem.
        uid = counter.getAndIncrement();
        Integer alreadySet = uids.putIfAbsent(obj, uid);

- Fixed a race condition in the kube-proxy initialization that could cause UDP traffic to service VIP. ([#126532](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126532), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly))

 * and access mask of each ACE. If the SID matches, the allow/deny flags
 * and access mask are considered. If the ACE is a "deny"
 * ACE and <i>any</i> of the desired access bits match bits in the access
 * mask of the ACE, the whole access check fails. If the ACE is an "allow"
 * ACE and <i>all</i> of the bits in the desired access bits match bits in
 * the access mask of the ACE, the access check is successful. Otherwise,

* Fix race causing apiserver crashes during etcd healthchecking ([#60069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60069), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Increase allowed lag for ssh key sync loop in tunneler to allow for one failure ([#60068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60068), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Validate minimum CPU limits to be >= 10m ([#23143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23143), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))
* Fix controller-manager race condition issue which cause endpoints flush during restart ([#23035](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23035), [@xinxiaogang](https://github.com/xinxiaogang))

- EndpointSlice controller now handles terminating pods correctly and is better at preventing race conditions. ([#89118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89118), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Fix a panic when using invalid output format in kubectl create secret command ([#107345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107345), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz)) [SIG CLI]
- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107460), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]