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Describe the feature request

As @howardjohn pointed, and I confirmed. By default ExponentialBackOff.NextBackOff will return -1, then we use it as delay for time.Sleep(), the function will return immediately, this is very bad the process can fall in dead loop.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Istio may need to wrap ExponentialBackOff to prevent such behavior.

Affected product area (please put an X in all that apply)

[ ] Docs
[ ] Installation
[ ] Networking
[ ] Performance and Scalability
[ ] Extensions and Telemetry
[ ] Security
[ ] Test and Release
[ ] User Experience
[ ] Developer Infrastructure

Affected features (please put an X in all that apply)

[ ] Multi Cluster
[ ] Virtual Machine
[ ] Multi Control Plane

Additional context