Max Kellermann wrote:
> Your -mm patches make the sunrpc client connect to the portmapper with
> a non-privileged source port.  This is due to a change in
> net/sunrpc/pmap_clnt.c, which manually resets the xprt->resvport
> field.  My tiny patch removes this line.  I have no idea why the line
> was added in the first place, does somebody know better?
Yes this is a bug, since most Linux portmapper will not
allow ports to be set or unset using non-privilege ports.
But non-privilege ports can be used to get ports information.
So I would suggest the following patch that stops the
use of privileges ports on only get port requests.

steved.