gitlab-runner webhook "validate-policy.kyverno.svc" denied... system:serviceaccount:kyverno:kyverno-background-controller requires permissions get,create,update,delete for resource v1/Secret in namespace gitlab-runner

We are upgrading to bigbang 2.44. We are running kyverno as well as gitlab. Gitlab-runners is getting the following error when upgrading:

admission webhook "validate-policy.kyverno.svc" denied the request: path: spec.rules[0].generate..: system:serviceaccount:kyverno:kyverno-background-controller requires permissions get,create,update,delete for resource v1/Secret in namespace gitlab-runner

Wondering if this has been seen before?