Kernel crashes, during boot, on gcm(aes) alg self test when fips mode is enabled

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Issue

After following the steps described in the How can I make RHEL 6 FIPS 140-2 compliant? solution, system panics during boot.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • dracut-004-303.el6.noarch package installed
  • dracut-fips-004-303.el6.noarch package installed
  • dracut-fips-aesni-004-303.el6.noarch package installed
  • dracut-kernel-004-303.el6.noarch package installed

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