Update google.golang.org/protobuf to v1.36.12-0.20260120151049-f2248ac996af

Pins google.golang.org/protobuf to HEAD commit f2248ac996afc39b3df0777cdcc269f6ade50b07
(v1.36.12-0.20260120151049-f2248ac996af) which includes fixes for dead code
elimination issues surfaced by Go 1.26's reflect changes.

Xref: https://github.com/golang/protobuf/issues/1704
Xref: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/137445
Signed-off-by: Davanum Srinivas <davanum@gmail.com>

Kubernetes-commit: c8826e0d235fde75d02643bd700179ed79897ad6

go.mod

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ godebug default=go1.25
 
 require (
 	golang.org/x/time v0.14.0
-	k8s.io/api v0.0.0-20260305042032-d857bb317317
-	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0-20260305041646-850367df4eef
-	k8s.io/client-go v0.0.0-20260305042603-a72ad3ccbc80
-	k8s.io/code-generator v0.0.0-20260305043726-c04b5f58f130
+	k8s.io/api v0.0.0
+	k8s.io/apimachinery v0.0.0
+	k8s.io/client-go v0.0.0
+	k8s.io/code-generator v0.0.0
 	k8s.io/klog/v2 v2.130.1
 	k8s.io/kube-openapi v0.0.0-20260304202019-5b3e3fdb0acf
 	k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20260210185600-b8788abfbbc2
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/term v0.39.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/text v0.33.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/tools v0.41.0 // indirect
-	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.11 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.12-0.20260120151049-f2248ac996af // indirect
 	gopkg.in/evanphx/json-patch.v4 v4.13.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/inf.v0 v0.9.1 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
@@ -56,3 +56,10 @@ require (
 	sigs.k8s.io/randfill v1.0.0 // indirect
 	sigs.k8s.io/yaml v1.6.0 // indirect
 )
+
+replace (
+	k8s.io/api => ../api
+	k8s.io/apimachinery => ../apimachinery
+	k8s.io/client-go => ../client-go
+	k8s.io/code-generator => ../code-generator
+)