Mounting CIFS DFS share fails with "mount error(40): Too many levels of symbolic links" in RHEL 8.10

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Attempting to mount CIFS Distributed File System (DFS) referral returns the error:
mount error(40): Too many levels of symbolic links
  • Issue is seeing when mounting CIFS in RHEL 8.10 and CIFS shares can be mounted correctly if the kernel is downgraded to previous kernel.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10
  • CIFS
  • Distributed File System (DFS)

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