diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go
index 23830a09e74..4d759f98a93 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_linux.go
@@ -69,10 +69,7 @@ func NewCgroupName(base CgroupName, components ...string) CgroupName {
 			panic(fmt.Errorf("invalid character in component [%q] of CgroupName", component))
 		}
 	}
-	// copy data from the base cgroup to eliminate cases where CgroupNames share underlying slices.  See #68416
-	baseCopy := make([]string, len(base))
-	copy(baseCopy, base)
-	return CgroupName(append(baseCopy, components...))
+	return CgroupName(append(append([]string{}, base...), components...))
 }
 
 func escapeSystemdCgroupName(part string) string {
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_unsupported.go b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_unsupported.go
index 5d77ed7a45f..e8aaf2d2ba4 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_unsupported.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/cm/cgroup_manager_unsupported.go
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ func (m *unsupportedCgroupManager) ReduceCPULimits(cgroupName CgroupName) error
 var RootCgroupName = CgroupName([]string{})
 
 func NewCgroupName(base CgroupName, components ...string) CgroupName {
-	return CgroupName(append(base, components...))
+	return append(append([]string{}, base...), components...)
 }
 
 func (cgroupName CgroupName) ToSystemd() string {
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/eviction/helpers.go b/pkg/kubelet/eviction/helpers.go
index 88e8c7f26c9..1bf73c6ba06 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/eviction/helpers.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/eviction/helpers.go
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ func addAllocatableThresholds(thresholds []evictionapi.Threshold) []evictionapi.
 			})
 		}
 	}
-	return append(thresholds, additionalThresholds...)
+	return append(append([]evictionapi.Threshold{}, thresholds...), additionalThresholds...)
 }
 
 // parseThresholdStatements parses the input statements into a list of Threshold objects.
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/stats/cadvisor_stats_provider.go b/pkg/kubelet/stats/cadvisor_stats_provider.go
index 34b58c2a5de..7fd131abc80 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/stats/cadvisor_stats_provider.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/stats/cadvisor_stats_provider.go
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ func (p *cadvisorStatsProvider) ListPodStats() ([]statsapi.PodStats, error) {
 		if vstats, found := p.resourceAnalyzer.GetPodVolumeStats(podUID); found {
 			ephemeralStats = make([]statsapi.VolumeStats, len(vstats.EphemeralVolumes))
 			copy(ephemeralStats, vstats.EphemeralVolumes)
-			podStats.VolumeStats = append(vstats.EphemeralVolumes, vstats.PersistentVolumes...)
+			podStats.VolumeStats = append(append([]statsapi.VolumeStats{}, vstats.EphemeralVolumes...), vstats.PersistentVolumes...)
 		}
 		podStats.EphemeralStorage = calcEphemeralStorage(podStats.Containers, ephemeralStats, &rootFsInfo, nil, false)
 		// Lookup the pod-level cgroup's CPU and memory stats
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/stats/cri_stats_provider.go b/pkg/kubelet/stats/cri_stats_provider.go
index c2bf6c16427..6027f7095d6 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/stats/cri_stats_provider.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/stats/cri_stats_provider.go
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ func (p *criStatsProvider) makePodStorageStats(s *statsapi.PodStats, rootFsInfo
 	}
 	ephemeralStats := make([]statsapi.VolumeStats, len(vstats.EphemeralVolumes))
 	copy(ephemeralStats, vstats.EphemeralVolumes)
-	s.VolumeStats = append(vstats.EphemeralVolumes, vstats.PersistentVolumes...)
+	s.VolumeStats = append(append([]statsapi.VolumeStats{}, vstats.EphemeralVolumes...), vstats.PersistentVolumes...)
 	s.EphemeralStorage = calcEphemeralStorage(s.Containers, ephemeralStats, rootFsInfo, logStats, true)
 }