Kubelet pods issue 3.18.0: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

[marcincuber]

Description

Issue with memory in 3.18.0 release. Kubelet pods not starting at all.
Happening on EKS 1.26 and 1.27

Rollback to 3.17.0 resolved the issue.

Logs

time="2023-05-30T10:11:34Z" level=warning msg="Error sending data to agent sink: {"2023-05-30 10:11:34.963467014 +0000 UTC m=+76.216265688" "Do" "http://localhost:8003/v1/data\" "POST" '\x00' '\x03' '\x02' "Post \"http://localhost:8003/v1/data\\\": dial tcp [::1]:8003: connect: connection refused"}"

time="2023-05-30T10:11:01Z" level=info msg="connect got id" agent-guid=MzY4NTQ1M3xJTkZSQXxOQXwzOTMwOTA2NTI5NTEyMjg5Njcz agent-id=3930906529512289673 component=IdentityConnectService
time="2023-05-30T10:11:21Z" level=warning msg="instantiating container sampler process decorator" component=ProcessSampler error="containerd sampler: no running task found: task 1a0e02bcaf8975c86d191c97cf1833b69af46644181894b223d4bfd7084ac845 not found: not found"
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x18 pc=0x16aec2e]

goroutine 162 [running]:
github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics.(*containerdDecorator).Decorate(0xc00034e678?, 0xc000b2f760)
   /go/src/github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/containerd_sampler.go:173 +0x2e
github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/process.(*processSampler).Sample(0xc00035b310)
   /go/src/github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/process/sampler_linux.go:127 +0x3de
github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/sampler.StartSamplerRoutine.func1.2({0x1d4a340, 0xc00035b310})
   /go/src/github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/sampler/sampler_routine.go:49 +0x12c
github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/sampler.StartSamplerRoutine.func1()
   /go/src/github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/sampler/sampler_routine.go:50 +0x18a
created by github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/sampler.StartSamplerRoutine
   /go/src/github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent/pkg/metrics/sampler/sampler_routine.go:35 +0x16e

Steps to Reproduce

Deploy latest version of infrastructure agent

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[workato-integration]

https://issues.newrelic.com/browse/NEWRELIC-8849

[workato-integration]

The problem is a duplicate of an existing issue.