hardlink swapping across multiple layers fail

Saw this on an image built with kaniko with the symlink prefix patch. Anaconda was from 9.4

> 22:53:33,417 INF program: error: Performing deployment: Importing: Parsing layer blob sha256:0be089d5aab4c35a9c9dce1f00d4c5b02112972a2e62886fed445d380920616f: error: ostree-tar: Processing deferred hardlink etc/sysconfig/iptables-config: Failed to find object: No such file or directory: etc: Processing tar via ostree: Failed to commit tar: ExitStatus(unix_wait_status(256))

Inspecting the layer:
```
$ tar -P --verbatim-files-from -tvf 0be089d5aab4c35a9c9dce1f00d4c5b02112972a2e62886fed445d380920616f.tar.gz | grep iptables-config
-rw------- 0/0 2153 2024-12-10 16:36 etc/sysconfig/iptables-config
hrw------- 0/0 0 2024-12-10 16:36 sysroot/ostree/repo/objects/04/34708d463840ebb8071a370470df6607eaf187f2cd7686cbab04216c8b7743.file link to etc/sysconfig/iptables-config
```

The link is there.

If I grep all the layers though, there's this:

```
ls *.tar.gz | while read line; do tar -P --verbatim-files-from -tvf $line| grep 'iptables-config'; done
-rw------- 0/0 2153 2024-12-10 16:36 etc/sysconfig/iptables-config
hrw------- 0/0 0 2024-12-10 16:36 sysroot/ostree/repo/objects/04/34708d463840ebb8071a370470df6607eaf187f2cd7686cbab04216c8b7743.file link to etc/sysconfig/iptables-config
hrw------- 0/0 0 1969-12-31 16:00 etc/sysconfig/iptables-config link to sysroot/ostree/repo/objects/04/34708d463840ebb8071a370470df6607eaf187f2cd7686cbab04216c8b7743.file
```

Did kaniko produce another bad image, or is kaniko producing a valid image and bootc is just seeing something its not prepared to handle?