Merge pull request #128236 from carlory/automated-cherry-pick-of-#128182-upstream-release-1.31

Automated cherry pick of #128182: Fix crash on kube manager's service-lb-controller after v1.31.0.

staging/src/k8s.io/cloud-provider/controllers/service/controller.go

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ func New(
 	featureGate featuregate.FeatureGate,
 ) (*Controller, error) {
 	registerMetrics()
+
 	s := &Controller{
 		cloud:            cloud,
 		kubeClient:       kubeClient,
@@ -128,6 +129,10 @@ func New(
 		lastSyncedNodes: make(map[string][]*v1.Node),
 	}
 
+	if err := s.init(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
 	serviceInformer.Informer().AddEventHandlerWithResyncPeriod(
 		cache.ResourceEventHandlerFuncs{
 			AddFunc: func(cur interface{}) {
@@ -182,10 +187,6 @@ func New(
 		nodeSyncPeriod,
 	)
 
-	if err := s.init(); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
 	return s, nil
 }