When I run my unionmount testsuite against overlayfs, I get the following lockdep warning (unionmount is not in the kernel sources in this test): ================================================ [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] 3.15.0-rc6-fsdevel+ #363 Tainted: G W ------------------------------------------------ mount/4183 is leaving the kernel with locks still held! 1 lock held by mount/4183: #0: (sb_writers#8){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8112bf5b>] mnt_want_write+0x1c/0x40 The mounts involved look like: lower_layer /lower tmpfs ro,seclabel,relatime 0 0 upper_layer /upper tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0 overlayfs /mnt overlayfs rw,relatime,lowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper/upper,workdir=/upper/work 0 0 I get a busy inodes warning on unmounting /upper (/mnt unmounts okay): BUG: Dentry ffff88002795feb8{i=2e8e,n=work} still in use (1) [unmount of tmpfs tmpfs] ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2981 at /data/fs/linux-2.6-fscache/fs/dcache.c:1262 umount_check+0x76/0x7a() Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 2981 Comm: umount Tainted: G W 3.15.0-rc6-fsdevel+ #363 Hardware name: /DG965RY, BIOS MQ96510J.86A.0816.2006.0716.2308 07/16/2006 0000000000000000 ffff8800383b7d38 ffffffff8148b669 0000000000000000 ffff8800383b7d70 ffffffff81038887 ffffffff81125407 ffff8800279368a0 00000000000005d0 ffff88003b76f630 ffff88002795feb8 ffff8800383b7d80 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8148b669>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x66 [<ffffffff81038887>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0x93 [<ffffffff81125407>] ? umount_check+0x76/0x7a [<ffffffff8103893f>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff81125407>] umount_check+0x76/0x7a [<ffffffff811238bc>] d_walk+0x134/0x2ff [<ffffffff811251ab>] ? do_one_tree+0x21/0x34 [<ffffffff81125391>] ? dget_parent+0x13f/0x13f [<ffffffff811251ab>] do_one_tree+0x21/0x34 [<ffffffff81125dbf>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x42/0x6b [<ffffffff81112e73>] generic_shutdown_super+0x1c/0xe8 [<ffffffff8111309b>] kill_anon_super+0xd/0x17 [<ffffffff811130c3>] kill_litter_super+0x1e/0x21 [<ffffffff8111344e>] deactivate_locked_super+0x27/0x48 [<ffffffff81113ff5>] deactivate_super+0x39/0x3c [<ffffffff8112bc50>] mntput_no_expire+0x237/0x258 [<ffffffff8112d001>] ? SyS_umount+0x3ba/0x3db [<ffffffff8112d001>] SyS_umount+0x3ba/0x3db [<ffffffff814923f4>] ? tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 [<ffffffff8100d737>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x197/0x1eb [<ffffffff814923f4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 ---[ end trace 11bb9aeb6ce29610 ]--- VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html