Mounting cifs DFS share fails with "mount error(40): Too many levels of symbolic links" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

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Issue

  • Attempting to mount cifs DFS referral produces the error:
mount error(40): Too many levels of symbolic links

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • kernel-2.6.32-358.el6 and above.

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