Bug 1574400

Summary:	Exporting a large number of subnets causes causes the mount to fail with "access denied"
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Pierguido Lambri <plambri>
Component:	nfs-utils	Assignee:	Steve Dickson <steved>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Yongcheng Yang <yoyang>
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Version:	5.11	CC:	steved, xzhou, yoyang
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Description Pierguido Lambri 2018-05-03 08:25:25 UTC

Description of problem:
When exporting a large number of subnets in /etc/exports,
the NFS client mounting one of the shares with NFSv3 fails with "access denied"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Kernel >= 2.6.18-274.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Export a large number of subnets
2. Try to mount one of the shares with NFSv3 (client version is not important)

Actual results:
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.122.10:/exports2

Expected results:
Mount should succeed

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Comment 1 Pierguido Lambri 2018-05-03 08:25:54 UTC

Note that the same issue is reproducible with RHEL6 but not with RHEL7

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2021-11-19 07:27:07 UTC

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.