Error alg: rsa: encrypt test failed. err -22 reported at boot on Intel Purley 2 and 4 Socket system

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Environment

  • Intel Purley 2 and 4 Socket Systems
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Update 3
  • Kernel encryption support

Issue

Kernel support for encryption will fail to initialize during cold boot and will throw errors in the boot messages, similar to the following:

alg: rsa: encrypt test failed. err -22...

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