Post #1876474

here's the chunk of my script for patching red hat and derivatives grep -E 'algif_aead\.ko$' /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ];then if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ];then grep 'initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init' /proc/cmdline >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -ne 0 ];then sudo grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init" lsblk | grep -i 'efi' >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ];then sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg else sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg fi echo -e "Note: A reboot is necessary to apply mitigation\nPlease run: sudo reboot" else echo "Mitigation already appears to be in place" fi else echo "Error: This script is meant for AlmaLinux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, or Red Hat" # note: might work on Rocky Linux too fi fi