Check LoadBalancingRulePropertiesFormat for azure load balancers

pkg/cloudprovider/providers/azure/azure_loadbalancer.go

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
+	"reflect"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -1218,13 +1219,30 @@ func findProbe(probes []network.Probe, probe network.Probe) bool {
 
 func findRule(rules []network.LoadBalancingRule, rule network.LoadBalancingRule) bool {
 	for _, existingRule := range rules {
-		if strings.EqualFold(*existingRule.Name, *rule.Name) {
+		if strings.EqualFold(*existingRule.Name, *rule.Name) &&
+			equalLoadBalancingRulePropertiesFormat(existingRule.LoadBalancingRulePropertiesFormat, rule.LoadBalancingRulePropertiesFormat) {
 			return true
 		}
 	}
 	return false
 }
 
+// equalLoadBalancingRulePropertiesFormat checks whether the provided LoadBalancingRulePropertiesFormat are equal.
+// Note: only fields used in reconcileLoadBalancer are considered.
+func equalLoadBalancingRulePropertiesFormat(s, t *network.LoadBalancingRulePropertiesFormat) bool {
+	if s == nil || t == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	return reflect.DeepEqual(s.Protocol, t.Protocol) &&
+		reflect.DeepEqual(s.FrontendIPConfiguration, t.FrontendIPConfiguration) &&
+		reflect.DeepEqual(s.BackendAddressPool, t.BackendAddressPool) &&
+		reflect.DeepEqual(s.LoadDistribution, t.LoadDistribution) &&
+		reflect.DeepEqual(s.FrontendPort, t.FrontendPort) &&
+		reflect.DeepEqual(s.BackendPort, t.BackendPort) &&
+		reflect.DeepEqual(s.EnableFloatingIP, t.EnableFloatingIP)
+}
+
 // This compares rule's Name, Protocol, SourcePortRange, DestinationPortRange, SourceAddressPrefix, Access, and Direction.
 // Note that it compares rule's DestinationAddressPrefix only when it's not consolidated rule as such rule does not have DestinationAddressPrefix defined.
 // We intentionally do not compare DestinationAddressPrefixes in consolidated case because reconcileSecurityRule has to consider the two rules equal,