I got some kind of working behaviour with the diff below, which stops cpio 'fixing' the file permissions (only on the directories). But it seems the underlying cause is cpio trying to copy file permissions which it would be better off not doing in this case (and which there isn't a flag to disable).
I don't think you want to have the setgid bit on files, only on directories, so your patch seems okay to me.
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