diff --git a/tests/probes/sysctl/test_sysctl_probe_all.sh b/tests/probes/sysctl/test_sysctl_probe_all.sh
index f1834059fb..efaa31b9b1 100755
--- a/tests/probes/sysctl/test_sysctl_probe_all.sh
+++ b/tests/probes/sysctl/test_sysctl_probe_all.sh
@@ -8,101 +8,57 @@ set -e -o pipefail
 # non root users
 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
 
-# non root users are not able to access some kernel params, so they get excluded
-SYSCTL_EXCLUDE='
-	dev.parport.parport0.autoprobe
-	dev.tty.legacy_tiocsti
-	fs.protected_hardlinks
-	fs.protected_fifos
-	fs.protected_regular
-	fs.protected_symlinks
-	kernel.apparmor_display_secid_mode
-	kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns
-	kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns_complain
-	kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns_force
-	kernel.cad_pid
-	kernel.unprivileged_userns_apparmor_policy
-	kernel.usermodehelper.bset
-	kernel.usermodehelper.inheritable
-	net.core.bpf_jit_harden
-	net.core.bpf_jit_kallsyms
-	net.core.bpf_jit_limit
-	net.ipv4.tcp_fastopen_key
-	stable_secret
-	vm.mmap_rnd_bits
-	vm.mmap_rnd_compat_bits
-	vm.stat_refresh'
-
-SYSCTL_EXCLUDE_REGEX="$(printf '\|%s' $SYSCTL_EXCLUDE)"
-# strip leading '\|'
-SYSCTL_EXCLUDE_REGEX=${SYSCTL_EXCLUDE_REGEX:2}
-
 function perform_test {
-probecheck "sysctl" || return 255
-
-name=$(basename $0 .sh)
-
-result=$(mktemp ${name}.res.out.XXXXXX)
-stderr=$(mktemp ${name}.err.out.XXXXXX)
-ourNames=$(mktemp ${name}.our.out.XXXXXX)
-sysctlNames=$(mktemp ${name}.sysctl.out.XXXXXX)
-
-echo "Result file: $result"
-echo "Our names file: $ourNames"
-echo "Sysctl names file: $sysctlNames"
-echo "Errors file: $stderr"
-
-$OSCAP oval eval --results $result $srcdir/test_sysctl_probe_all.oval.xml > /dev/null 2>$stderr
-
-case $(uname) in
-	FreeBSD)
-		sysctl -aN 2> /dev/null > "$sysctlNames"
-		;;
-	Linux)
-		# sysctl has duplicities in output
-		# hide permission errors like: "sysctl: permission denied on key 'fs.protected_hardlinks'"
-		# kernel parameters might use "/" and "." separators interchangeably - normalizing
-		sysctl -aN --deprecated 2> /dev/null | grep -v $SYSCTL_EXCLUDE_REGEX | tr "/" "." | sort -u > "$sysctlNames"
-		;;
-esac
-
-grep unix-sys:name "$result" | grep -v $SYSCTL_EXCLUDE_REGEX | xsed -E 's;.*>(.*)<.*;\1;g' | sort > "$ourNames"
-
-# If procps_ver > 3.3.12 we need to filter *stable_secret and vm.stat_refresh
-# options from the sysctl output, for more details see
-# https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap/issues/1152.
-procps_ver="$(package_version procps-ng procps)"
-
-lowest_ver=$(echo -e "3.3.12\n$procps_ver" | sort -V | head -n1)
-if [ "$procps_ver" != "$lowest_ver" ]; then
-	sed -i '/net.ipv6.conf.*stable_secret$/d' "$sysctlNames"
-	sed -i '/.*vm.stat_refresh/d' "$sysctlNames"
-fi
-
-if ! grep -q "hugepages" "$ourNames"; then
-	sed -i "/^.*hugepages.*$/d" "$sysctlNames"
-fi
-
-echo "Diff (sysctlNames / ourNames): ------"
-diff "$sysctlNames" "$ourNames"
-echo "-------------------------------------"
-
-# remove oscap error message related to permissions from stderr
-sed -i -E "/^E: oscap: +Can't read sysctl value from /d" "$stderr"
-sed -i -E "/^E: oscap: +An error.*, Operation not permitted/d" "$stderr"
-
-# remove oscap error message related to gibberish binary entries
-# that can't fit into 8K buffer and result in errno 14
-# (for example /proc/sys/kernel/spl/hostid could be the case)
-sed -i -E "/^E: oscap: +An error.*14, Bad address/d" "$stderr"
-sed -i "/^.*hugepages.*$/d" "$stderr"
-
-echo "Errors (without messages related to permissions):"
-cat "$stderr"
-
-[ ! -s $stderr ]
-
-rm $stderr $result $ourNames $sysctlNames
+	probecheck "sysctl" || return 255
+
+	name=$(basename $0 .sh)
+
+	result=$(mktemp ${name}.res.out.XXXXXX)
+	stderr=$(mktemp ${name}.err.out.XXXXXX)
+	ourNames=$(mktemp ${name}.our.out.XXXXXX)
+	sysctlNames=$(mktemp ${name}.sysctl.out.XXXXXX)
+
+	echo "Result file: $result"
+	echo "Our names file: $ourNames"
+	echo "Sysctl names file: $sysctlNames"
+	echo "Errors file: $stderr"
+
+	$OSCAP oval eval --results $result $srcdir/test_sysctl_probe_all.oval.xml > /dev/null 2>$stderr
+
+	case $(uname) in
+		FreeBSD)
+			sysctl -aN 2> /dev/null > "$sysctlNames"
+			;;
+		Linux)
+			# sysctl has duplicities in output
+			# hide permission errors like: "sysctl: permission denied on key 'fs.protected_hardlinks'"
+			# kernel parameters might use "/" and "." separators interchangeably - normalizing
+			sysctl -a --deprecated 2> /dev/null | tr "/" "." | cut -d "=" -f 1 | tr -d " " | sort -u > "$sysctlNames"
+			;;
+	esac
+
+	grep unix-sys:name "$result" | xsed -E 's;.*>(.*)<.*;\1;g' | sort > "$ourNames"
+
+	echo "Diff (sysctlNames / ourNames): ------"
+	diff "$sysctlNames" "$ourNames"
+	echo "-------------------------------------"
+
+	# remove oscap error message related to permissions from stderr
+	sed -i -E "/^E: oscap: +Can't read sysctl value from /d" "$stderr"
+	sed -i -E "/^E: oscap: +An error.*, Operation not permitted/d" "$stderr"
+
+	# remove oscap error message related to gibberish binary entries
+	# that can't fit into 8K buffer and result in errno 14
+	# (for example /proc/sys/kernel/spl/hostid could be the case)
+	sed -i -E "/^E: oscap: +An error.*14, Bad address/d" "$stderr"
+	sed -i "/^.*hugepages.*$/d" "$stderr"
+
+	echo "Errors (without messages related to permissions):"
+	cat "$stderr"
+
+	[ ! -s $stderr ]
+
+	rm $stderr $result $ourNames $sysctlNames
 }
 
 perform_test