diff --git a/pkg/k8sclient/k8sclient.go b/pkg/k8sclient/k8sclient.go
index 5c013499b..ce06486f8 100644
--- a/pkg/k8sclient/k8sclient.go
+++ b/pkg/k8sclient/k8sclient.go
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ func (c *ClientInfo) GetPodContext(ctx context.Context, namespace, name string)
 }
 
 // GetPodAPILiveQuery does a live API query for the pod, instead of using informers, for cases when a failure occurred, as to prevent a cache miss.
-func (c *ClientInfo) GetPodAPILiveQuery(namespace, name string) (*v1.Pod, error) {
-	return c.Client.CoreV1().Pods(namespace).Get(context.TODO(), name, metav1.GetOptions{})
+func (c *ClientInfo) GetPodAPILiveQuery(ctx context.Context, namespace, name string) (*v1.Pod, error) {
+	return c.Client.CoreV1().Pods(namespace).Get(ctx, name, metav1.GetOptions{})
 }
 
 // DeletePod deletes a pod from kubernetes
diff --git a/pkg/multus/multus.go b/pkg/multus/multus.go
index 165ea1816..5fda59163 100644
--- a/pkg/multus/multus.go
+++ b/pkg/multus/multus.go
@@ -558,7 +558,9 @@ func GetPod(kubeClient *k8s.ClientInfo, k8sArgs *types.K8sArgs, isDel bool) (*v1
 		// Try one more time to get the pod directly from the apiserver;
 		// TODO: figure out why static pods don't show up via the informer
 		// and always hit this case.
-		pod, err = kubeClient.GetPodAPILiveQuery(podNamespace, podName)
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.TODO(), pollDuration)
+		defer cancel()
+		pod, err = kubeClient.GetPodAPILiveQuery(ctx, podNamespace, podName)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, cmdErr(k8sArgs, "error waiting for pod: %v", err)
 		}