Bug 1574400 - Exporting a large number of subnets causes causes the mount to fail with "access denied"
Summary: Exporting a large number of subnets causes causes the mount to fail with "acc...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nfs-utils
Version: 5.11
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Steve Dickson
QA Contact: Yongcheng Yang
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-03 08:25 UTC by Pierguido Lambri
Modified: 2021-11-19 07:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-11-19 07:27:07 UTC
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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.


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