RHEL8.4: sloppy mount option not working as expected when not in leftmost position of mount options

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

After upgrade to RHEL8.4, if sloppy option is used on options string it may not work exactly as before :


== 8.3 [root@rhel8 ~]# uname -r ; rpm -q nfs-utils 4.18.0-240.10.1.el8_3.x86_64 nfs-utils-2.3.3-35.el8.x86_64 [root@rhel8 ~]# mount -o quota,sloppy 172.23.1.225:/share /mnt [root@rhel8 ~]# == 8.4 [root@rhel8 ~]# uname -r ; rpm -q nfs-utils 4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64 nfs-utils-2.3.3-35.el8.x86_64 [root@rhel8 ~]# mount -o quota,sloppy 172.23.1.225:/share /mnt mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified [root@rhel8 ~]#

Environment

  • RHEL8.4
  • NFS
  • nfs-utils-2.3.3-41.el8.x86_64 and kernel-4.18.0-305.*el8

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