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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:41:04 GMT
From:      Robert Schulze <rs@bytecamp.net>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/147940: mounting >1k TCP-NFS mounts fails
Message-ID:  <201006171241.o5HCf4Lu093948@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <201006171250.o5HCo3N5089306@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         147940
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       mounting >1k TCP-NFS mounts fails
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 17 12:50:03 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Schulze
>Release:        7.1-RELEASE-p11
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD XXXXX 7.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p11 #5: Tue Mar  2 12:44:28 CET 2010     root@XXXXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XXXXX  amd64

>Description:
Having >1k mountpoints in fstab, mount -a fails after the 212th mountpoint with the following message:

"RPCPROG_MNT: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak"

All mountpoints are mounted with:

rw,soft,noatime,-N,-T,noinet6,-r=8192,-w=8192

Ommitting the -T flag and so using UDP mounts, everything is OK as long as -N is given, otherwise even UDP mounts fail. 

The Server is FreeBSD-8.0, exporting >1k ZFS mountpoints.
In /var/log/messages, there is the following hint

"mount request from XXXXX from unprivileged port"

As mountd(8) says, one may set vfs.nfsrv.nfs_privport to 0, but could that expose a security risk?
>How-To-Repeat:
create /etc/fstab with a large number of NFS mounts

$ mount -a
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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