Okay, I just ran diff on the contents of the vmci.tar and vmhgfs.tar files in VMwareTools-9.2.2-893683.tar.gz (VMware Fusion 5.0.3) and VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz (VMware Workstation 9.0.2) and there are two other files, one in each, that differ. So my suggestion would be to manually patch the /vmci-only/linux/driver.c file and the /vmhgfs-only/inode.c file before installing VMware Tools. Note that I did not diff the other modules and don't think it's necessary since the main issues have been with vmci and vmhgfs with the latest release of Ubuntu/Linux Mint.
I'm going to test this in a little while and see what happens.