RHEL7 systems with FIPS enabled producing "modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ..." / "modprobe: FATAL: Module ... not found" messages
Issue
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After enabling FIPS, the following ERROR messages are printed during boot and seen in the journal
dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'camellia_aesni_avx_x86_64': No such device dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'camellia_aesni_avx2': No such device dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'cast6_avx_x86_64': No such device dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'serpent_avx_x86_64': No such device dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'serpent_avx2': No such device dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'twofish_avx_x86_64': No such device
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After enabling FIPS, the following FATAL messages are printed during boot and seen in the journal
dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: FATAL: Module sha1 not found. dracut-pre-trigger[252]: modprobe: FATAL: Module sha256 not found.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red hat Enterprise Linux 8
- FIPS compliance mode
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