Merge pull request #123080 from alexzielenski/automated-cherry-pick-of-#123003-upstream-release-1.29

Cherry pick of #123003 and #123082: bugfix: dont skip reconcile for unchanged policy if last sync

Kubernetes-commit: b39bf52c6693356fb3e3c4a91ef56aff20c13aef

Author: k8s-publishing-bot