Proactively backport generic kernel-core fixes from upstream

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2190216

Bringing follow up fixes from upstream for patches that
were backported to previous releases of RHEL 9.

KT1-lite test evidence in Bugzilla comment 1.

Signed-off-by: Audra Mitchell aubaker@redhat.com