diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 669909ed7..6030be687 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ require (
 	k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.130.1
 	k8s.io/kubelet v0.31.2
 	k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20240711033017-18e509b52bc8
-	tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface v0.8.0
+	tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface v0.8.1
 )
 
 require (
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 7dd10c628..b52402d73 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4 v4.4.1 h1:150L+0vs/8DA78h1u02ooW1/fFq/Lwr+s
 sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4 v4.4.1/go.mod h1:N8hJocpFajUSSeSJ9bOZ77VzejKZaXsTtZo4/u7Io08=
 sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0 h1:Mk1wCc2gy/F0THH0TAp1QYyJNzRm2KCLy3o5ASXVI5E=
 sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.4.0/go.mod h1:Ejl7/uTz7PSA4eKMyQCUTnhZYNmLIl+5c2lQPGR2BPY=
-tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface v0.8.0 h1:8bCFo/g9WODjWx3m6EYl3GfUG31eKJbaggyBDxEldRc=
-tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface v0.8.0/go.mod h1:Apb7N4VdILW0EVdEMRYXIDVRZfNJZ+kmEUss2kRRQ6Y=
+tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface v0.8.1 h1:c0jN4Mt6781jD67NdPajmZlD1qrqQyov/Xfoab37lj0=
+tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface v0.8.1/go.mod h1:Apb7N4VdILW0EVdEMRYXIDVRZfNJZ+kmEUss2kRRQ6Y=
 tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface/specs-go v0.8.0 h1:QYGFzGxvYK/ZLMrjhvY0RjpUavIn4KcmRmVP/JjdBTA=
 tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface/specs-go v0.8.0/go.mod h1:BhJIkjjPh4qpys+qm4DAYtUyryaTDg9zris+AczXyws=
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 6f7440692..d04595790 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4/value
 ## explicit; go 1.12
 sigs.k8s.io/yaml
 sigs.k8s.io/yaml/goyaml.v2
-# tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface v0.8.0
+# tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface v0.8.1
 ## explicit; go 1.20
 tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface/internal/validation
 tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface/internal/validation/k8s
diff --git a/vendor/tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface/pkg/cdi/cache.go b/vendor/tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface/pkg/cdi/cache.go
index c2f7fe346..9afa4b182 100644
--- a/vendor/tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface/pkg/cdi/cache.go
+++ b/vendor/tags.cncf.io/container-device-interface/pkg/cdi/cache.go
@@ -564,6 +564,14 @@ func (w *watch) update(dirErrors map[string]error, removed ...string) bool {
 		update bool
 	)
 
+	// If we failed to create an fsnotify.Watcher we have a nil watcher here
+	// (but with autoRefresh left on). One known case when this can happen is
+	// if we have too many open files. In that case we always return true and
+	// force a refresh.
+	if w.watcher == nil {
+		return true
+	}
+
 	for dir, ok = range w.tracked {
 		if ok {
 			continue