System fails with Kernel Panic error on RHEL 8.10 hosted on Google compute engine (GCP).

Issue

• Instance in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) fails to come up or login after applying patches.

• Kernel panic error appears on GCP console.

  [   10.041865] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00007f00
  [   10.041865] 
  [   10.051485] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.18.0-553.54.1.el8_10.x86_64 #1
  [   10.059183] Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
  [   10.068512] Call Trace:
  [   10.071075]  dump_stack+0x41/0x60
  [   10.074493]  panic+0xe7/0x2ac
  [   10.077569]  do_exit.cold.28+0x5b/0xa2
  [   10.081600]  do_group_exit+0x3a/0xa0
  [   10.085304]  __x64_sys_exit_group+0x14/0x20
  [   10.089593]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0
  [   10.093356]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xcb
  [   10.098514] RIP: 0033:0x7f3b97d9006e
  [   10.102195] Code: 89 fa 41 b8 e7 00 00 00 be 3c 00 00 00 eb 14 0f 1f 44 00 00 89 d7 89 f0 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1a f4 89 d7 44 89 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 76 e2 f7 d8 89 05 6e c1 20 00 eb d8 f7 d8 89 05
  [   10.121060] RSP: 002b:00007ffedc1a4fe8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
  [   10.128818] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3b97d94b70 RCX: 00007f3b97d9006e
  [   10.136055] RDX: 000000000000007f RSI: 000000000000003c RDI: 000000000000007f
  [   10.143463] RBP: 00007f3b97f9808f R08: 00000000000000e7 R09: 0000000000000000
  [   10.150716] R10: 0000000000000020 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f3b97f980b0
  [   10.157950] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f3b97f9c230 R15: 0000000000000000
  [   10.165727] Kernel Offset: 0xf600000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
  [   10.176536] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00007f00
  [   10.176536]  ]---
  : error while lo