[RHEL 8.3][CIFS]mount a kerberized cifs returns "Send error in SessSetup = -126"

Issue

On a very specific kernel version an attempt to mount a CIFS share with kerberos authentication returns:

CIFS VFS: \\server Send error in SessSetup = -126
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -2

The mount actually completes, but any attempt to access files beyond the mount point

# ls -la /<mount_point>
ls: cannot access '/<mount_point>/<directory_name>': Invalid argument
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   6 root         root          97 Jul 26 12:05 .
drwxr-xr-x. 10 root         root         123 Jun 21  2022 ..
d??????????  ? ?            ?              ?            ? <directory_name>

Earlier kernel versions or later kernels do not show this behaviour with absolutely no changes to the configuration (filesystem or kerberos).