You are an expert in writing code in many different languages. Your goal is to perform code completion for the following code, keeping in mind the rest of the code and the file meta data.
    Metadata details:
    filename: controller_ref_manager.go
    path of file: ./repos/kubernetes/pkg/controller
    
    the code of the file until where you have to start completion: /*
Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*/

package controller

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"sync"

	apps "k8s.io/api/apps/v1"
	v1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors"
	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachi
    
func (m *PodControllerRefManager) ReleasePod(ctx context.Context, pod *v1.Pod) error {
	logger := klog.FromContext(ctx)
	logger.V(2).Info("Patching pod to remove its controllerRef", "pod", klog.KObj(pod), "gvk", m.controllerKind, "controller", m.Controller.GetName())
	patchBytes, err := GenerateDeleteOwnerRefStrategicMergeBytes(pod.UID, []types.UID{m.Controller.GetUID()}, m.finalizers...)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	err = m.podControl.PatchPod(ctx, pod.Namespace, pod.Name, patchBytes)
	if err != nil {
		if errors.IsNotFound(err) {
			// If the pod no longer exists, ignore it.
			return nil
		}
		if errors.IsInvalid(err) {
			// Invalid error will be returned in two cases: 1. the pod
			// has no owner reference, 2. the uid of the pod doesn't
			// match, which means the pod is deleted and then recreated.
			// In both cases, the error can be ignored.

			// TODO: If the pod has owner references, but none of them
			// has the owner.UID, server will silently ignore the patch.
			// Investigate why.
			return nil
		}
	}
	return err
}