On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:09:41PM -0700, Jaegeuk Kim wrote: > + if (!retval && (flags & UMOUNT_WAIT)) { > + if (likely(!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD))) > + task_work_run(); This is complete crap. The same damn thing will be done by caller of sys_umount() pretty much immediately afterwards. I'm not sure what it is that you are trying to paper over, but this is just plain wrong. What _is_ the semantics of UMOUNT_WAIT? What does it guarantee, and what would be supplying it to umount(2)?