diff --git a/nfs-utils-2.5.4-rpcidmapd-nfsopen-failure.patch b/nfs-utils-2.5.4-rpcidmapd-nfsopen-failure.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f86e5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nfs-utils-2.5.4-rpcidmapd-nfsopen-failure.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+commit fdc5081a8f48dd161ea94fff11bf0afd8d901747
+Author: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
+Date:   Fri Sep 20 12:30:07 2024 -0400
+
+    rpc.idmapd: nfsopen() failures should not be fatal
+    
+    dirscancb() loops over all clnt* subdirectories of /run/rpc_pipefs/nfs/.
+    Some of these directories contain /idmap files, others don't. nfsopen()
+    returns -1 for the latter; we then want to skip the directory, not abort
+    the entire scan.
+    
+    Reported-by: Sergio Gelato <sergio.gelato@astro.su.se>
+    Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/ZmCB_zqdu2cynJ1M@astro.su.se/
+    Link: https://bugs.debian.org/1072573
+    Patch-originally-by: Sergio Gelato <sergio.gelato@astro.su.se>
+    Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
+    Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
+
+diff --git a/utils/idmapd/idmapd.c b/utils/idmapd/idmapd.c
+index cd9a965f..5231f56d 100644
+--- a/utils/idmapd/idmapd.c
++++ b/utils/idmapd/idmapd.c
+@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ dirscancb(int fd, short UNUSED(which), void *data)
+ 			if (nfsopen(ic) == -1) {
+ 				close(ic->ic_dirfd);
+ 				free(ic);
+-				goto out;
++				continue;
+ 			}
+ 
+ 			if (verbose > 2)
diff --git a/nfs-utils.spec b/nfs-utils.spec
index 3bb183e..7f53f0f 100644
--- a/nfs-utils.spec
+++ b/nfs-utils.spec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Summary: NFS utilities and supporting clients and daemons for the kernel NFS ser
 Name: nfs-utils
 URL: http://linux-nfs.org/
 Version: 2.5.4
-Release: 27%{?dist}
+Release: 28%{?dist}
 Epoch: 1
 
 # group all 32bit related archs
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ Patch025: nfs-utils-2.5.4-rpcdebug-check-read-return.patch
 Patch026: nfs-utils-2.5.4-gssd-allowed-enctypes.patch
 Patch027: nfs-utils-2.5.4-gssd-segfault.patch
 
+#
+# RHEL9.6
+#
+Patch028: nfs-utils-2.5.4-rpcidmapd-nfsopen-failure.patch
+
 Patch100: nfs-utils-1.2.1-statdpath-man.patch
 Patch101: nfs-utils-1.2.1-exp-subtree-warn-off.patch
 Patch102: nfs-utils-1.2.5-idmap-errmsg.patch
@@ -505,6 +510,9 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/*/nfsiostat.8.gz
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Nov 14 2024 Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> 2.5.4-28
+- rpc.idmapd: nfsopen() failures should not be fatal (RHEL-65727)
+
 * Fri Aug  9 2024 Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> 2.5.4-27
 - rpc-gssd.service has status failed (due to rpc.gssd segfault) (RHEL-43286)