Automatic merge from submit-queue.

Automated cherry pick of #66264: extend timeout to workaround slow arm64 math

Cherry pick of #66264 on release-1.10.

#66264: extend timeout to workaround slow arm64 math

Automatic merge from submit-queue.

Automated cherry pick of #64172 release 1.10

Automated cherry pick of #64172 release 1.10

```release-note
Reorder the authorizers in GCP to reduce traffic on the authorization webhook.
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Automated cherry pick of #66400: Return correct error type and HTTP Status code for operation

Cherry pick of #66400 on release-1.10.

#66400: Return correct error type and HTTP Status code for operation

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Remove patch retry conflict detection

Minimal backport of #63146
Fixes #58002

Fixes spurious patch errors for CRDs
Fixes patch errors for nodes when the watch cache has a persistently stale version of an object

```release-note
fixes spurious "meaningful conflict" error encountered by nodes attempting to update status, which could cause them to be considered unready
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Merge pull request #66355 from krunaljain/automated-cherry-pick-of-#66172-#66324-upstream-release-1.10

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Automated cherry pick of #66172: Reverting commit #56600 as GCE PD is allocated in chunks of #66324: Fixing E2E tests for disk resizing

Cherry pick of #66172 #66324 on release-1.10.

#66172: Reverting commit #56600 as GCE PD is allocated in chunks of
#66324: Fixing E2E tests for disk resizing

```release-note 
none 
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Automated cherry pick of #63272: fix IsLikelyNotMountPoint func on Windows

Cherry pick of #63272 on release-1.10.

#63272: fix IsLikelyNotMountPoint func on Windows