Enhanced security of auto-loading kernel modules in RHEL 8

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To enhance Red Hat Enterprise Linux against possible future security vulnerabilities in lesser-known components which system administrators typically do not protect against, a set of kernel modules have been moved to the kernel-modules-extra package so they are not installed by default, and blacklisted by default so those components cannot be loaded by non-root users.

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