For the sake of others who might encounter this same issue, I wanted to add one additional note. Even though updating to the 15.3 kernel stopped the kernel panic, there were still other driver-related issues. For example, the system couldn't get the radeon nor vesa drivers to load and dropped back to fbdev. This made it impossible to correctly handle multiple monitors, etc. As a result, I ended up replacing my Leap installation with Tumbleweed and things seem to be fully functional now (where it defaulted to the amdgpu driver).