Enabling FIPS 140-2 compliance causes kernel panic.

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Issue

  • Enabling FIPS 140-2 compliance causes kernel panic.
  • System panics with following message

    SELF TEST FAILED (/usr/lib64/hmaccalc/sha512hmac.hmac)
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • FIPS

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