this bug has so far been reproducible. I have an nfs server running Debian lenny with the stock 2.6.26-2-686 kernel, and a client machine also running Debian lenny but with a 2.6.32.12 kernel (kernel config attached). /etc/exports on the server, possibly bogus although the server never complains and still probably shouldn't trigger a NULL dereference in the client: /stow *(ro,fsid=0,crossmnt,no_subtree_check) /stow -mp,ro,all_squash,async,no_subtree_check \ 199.125.85.51 \ 199.125.85.134 \ 66.55.209.223 /etc/fstab on the client: 199.125.85.39:/stow /stow nfs4 noatime the OOPS (attached below) occurs when attempting a mount from the client # mount /stow # echo $? 2 the mount command never outputs but has a return code of 2 and the mount is not successful.