From 089770a178da6df078cee4092b6b38166eed098b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yassin <yassin@berri.ai>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 22:43:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(router): mark in-place kwargs update

Co-Authored-By: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 litellm/router.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/litellm/router.py b/litellm/router.py
index bd4cde32edb..b13aea60fdb 100644
--- a/litellm/router.py
+++ b/litellm/router.py
@@ -4039,7 +4039,7 @@ class Router:
         other_bucket: Final = "metadata" if metadata_variable_name == "litellm_metadata" else "litellm_metadata"
         other_bucket_metadata: Final = kwargs.get(other_bucket)
         if isinstance(other_bucket_metadata, Mapping) and KUBERNETES_POD_ROUTING_KEY in other_bucket_metadata:
-            kwargs[other_bucket] = {
+            kwargs[other_bucket] = {  # rebind-ok: this method updates the router's request kwargs in place
                 **other_bucket_metadata,
                 KUBERNETES_POD_ROUTING_KEY: routing,
             }