Fix a small race condition of MR pipeline creation

What does this MR do?

This is a fix for one of the follow-ups which suggested by @ayufan

What are the relevant issue numbers?

Close https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/54906

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

• Changelog entry added, if necessary
• [-] Documentation created/updated
• Tests added for this feature/bug
• [-] Tested in all supported browsers
• Conforms to the code review guidelines
• Conforms to the merge request performance guidelines
• Conforms to the style guides
• Conforms to the database guides
• [-] Link to e2e tests MR added if this MR has Requires e2e tests label. See the Test Planning Process.
• Security reports checked/validated by reviewer