With the current patches in for-next including Bharath's updated deferred close patch, I see improvements in the test runs. I did see this warning during test generic/132 (run to Windows) in the broad test run, but so far everything is passing for the main test group (there are two tests to debug that fail in the azure test target test group) that need to be debugged Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: BUG: Dentry 00000000e744dbca{i=6000000019c6c,n=/} still in use (2) [unmount of cifs cifs] Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 21735 at fs/dcache.c:1524 umount_check+0xc3/0xf0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: Modules linked in: cifs ccm cmac nls_utf8 cifs_arc4 nls_ucs2_utils cifs_md4 rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace netfs nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast xt_CT ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack ebtable_nat ip6table_nat ip6table_mangle ip6table_raw ip6table_security iptable_nat nf_nat iptable_mangle iptable_raw iptable_security nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_set nfnetlink ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter sunrpc kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel sha512_ssse3 bochs drm_vram_helper sha1_ssse3 drm_ttm_helper ttm drm_kms_helper drm floppy virtio_balloon ip_tables xfs virtio_net crc32c_intel net_failover sha256_ssse3 virtio_blk virtio_console failover qemu_fw_cfg [last unloaded: cifs] Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 21735 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.8.0 #1 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.16.1-1.el9 04/01/2014 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: Workqueue: deferredclose smb2_deferred_work_close [cifs] Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: RIP: 0010:umount_check+0xc3/0xf0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: Code: db 74 0d 48 8d 7b 40 e8 0b 96 f5 ff 48 8b 53 40 41 55 4d 89 f1 45 89 e0 48 89 e9 48 89 ee 48 c7 c7 80 c4 b9 b1 e8 8d 8c a6 ff <0f> 0b 58 31 c0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c3 cc cc cc cc 41 83 fc 01 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: RSP: 0018:ff1100011c5879f8 EFLAGS: 00010282 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ff1100010e869c80 RCX: 0000000000000027 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000027 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ff110004cb0319c8 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: RBP: ff11000121e43490 R08: ffffffffb040852e R09: ffe21c0099606339 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: R10: ff110004cb0319cb R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000002 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: R13: ff1100012aee2668 R14: ffffffffc1c5c0c0 R15: ffffffffc1ba09e0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff110004cb000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: CR2: 00007fc34296e1f8 CR3: 00000000a4660004 CR4: 0000000000371ef0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: Call Trace: Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: <TASK> Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? __warn+0xa4/0x200 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? umount_check+0xc3/0xf0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? report_bug+0x1d4/0x1e0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? handle_bug+0x42/0x80 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? irq_work_claim+0x1e/0x40 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? umount_check+0xc3/0xf0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? umount_check+0xc3/0xf0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? __pfx_umount_check+0x10/0x10 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: d_walk+0x72/0x4e0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? d_walk+0x58/0x4e0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x64/0x210 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: generic_shutdown_super+0x4a/0x1c0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: kill_anon_super+0x22/0x40 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: cifs_kill_sb+0x78/0x90 [cifs] Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: deactivate_locked_super+0x69/0xf0 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: cifsFileInfo_put_final+0x25a/0x290 [cifs] Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: _cifsFileInfo_put+0x448/0x7b0 [cifs] Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? __pfx__cifsFileInfo_put+0x10/0x10 [cifs] Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? lock_release+0x1c7/0x390 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x9c/0x100 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x23/0x40 Mar 14 18:03:04 fedora29 kernel: process_one_work+0x49b/0xbb0 -- Thanks, Steve