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Bug 796352 - NFS mounts fail against Windows 8 servers
Summary: NFS mounts fail against Windows 8 servers
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Steve Dickson
QA Contact: Chao Ye
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 832365 857028 861444 883511 883515 891859 891862
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Reported: 2012-02-22 17:56 UTC by Steve Dickson
Modified: 2018-11-29 20:16 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-280.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, mounting an NFS export from a Windows 2012 server failed due to the fact that the Windows server contains support for the minor version 1 (v4.1) of the NFS version 4 protocol only, along with support for versions 2 and 3. The lack of the minor version 0 (v4.0) support caused Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 clients to fail instead of rolling back to version 3 as expected. This update fixes this bug and mounting an NFS export works as expected.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-21 06:03:32 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 225793 0 None None None 2012-10-02 06:50:21 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0496 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel update 2013-02-20 21:40:54 UTC

Description Steve Dickson 2012-02-22 17:56:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
With RHEL6.x, NFS mounts always fail against when mount an export on
a Windows 8 server.

The reason being, Windows 8 only support v4.1 and the RHEL6
client does not auto negotiate back to v3 as expected.

Note, The Windows 8 server does indeed return the correct
error NFS4ERR_MINOR_VERS_MISMATCH(10021).  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Any and all RHEL6 releases.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mount win8:/export /mnt

  
Actual results:
mount.nfs: mount system call failed

Expected results:
The mount to auto negotiate back to v3 and succeed.

Additional info:
Workarounds:
mount -o minorversion=1 # to used NFSv4.1 
mount -o v3             # to use v3
Set the 'Nfsvers=3' variable in the "[ Server "Server_Name" ]"
  section of the /etc/nfsmount.conf file 
An Example will be:
  [ Server "win8" ]
     Nfsvers=3
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2012-05-03 05:19:32 UTC 
Since RHEL 6.3 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 3 Steve Dickson 2012-06-06 18:35:13 UTC 
The patch that fixes the problem. Tested at the spring Bakeathon.

diff -up linux-2.6.32-278.el6.pnfsgetdevicelist.x86_64/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c.orig linux-2.6.32-278.el6.pnfsgetdevicelist.x86_64/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
--- linux-2.6.32-278.el6.pnfsgetdevicelist.x86_64/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c.orig	2012-06-05 16:47:18.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.32-278.el6.pnfsgetdevicelist.x86_64/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c	2012-06-06 12:01:59.000000000 -0400
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ static int nfs4_map_errors(int err)
 	case -NFS4ERR_BADOWNER:
 	case -NFS4ERR_BADNAME:
 		return -EINVAL;
+	case -NFS4ERR_MINOR_VERS_MISMATCH:
+		return -EPROTONOSUPPORT;
 	default:
 		dprintk("%s could not handle NFSv4 error %d\n",
 				__func__, -err);
Comment 7 Jarod Wilson 2012-06-19 17:06:40 UTC 
Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-280.el6
Comment 11 Martin Prpič 2012-07-10 14:37:29 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, mounting an NFS export from a Windows 2012 server failed due to the fact that the Windows server contains support for the minor version 1 (v4.1) of the NFS version 4 protocol only, along with support for versions 2 and 3. The lack of the minor version 0 (v4.0) support caused Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 clients to fail instead of rolling back to version 3 as expected. This update fixes this bug and mounting an NFS export works as expected.
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 06:03:32 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html
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