On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 12:30 +0400, Vasily Averin wrote: > v4: description corrected > v3: patch inline > > Currently umount on symlink blocks following umount: > > /vz is separate mount > > # ls /vz/ -al | grep test > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 01:14 testdir > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 11 Jul 19 01:16 testlink -> /vz/testdir > # umount -l /vz/testlink > umount: /vz/testlink: not mounted (expected) > > # lsof /vz > # umount /vz > umount: /vz: device is busy. (unexpected) > > In this case mountpoint_last() gets an extra refcount on path->mnt > > Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> I was working on this too. I prefer this patch over my own. Haven't tested it yet but it is very similar to the patch I was working with which had seen some basic testing. > --- > fs/namei.c | 3 ++- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c > index 985c6f3..9eb787e 100644 > --- a/fs/namei.c > +++ b/fs/namei.c > @@ -2256,9 +2256,10 @@ done: > goto out; > } > path->dentry = dentry; > - path->mnt = mntget(nd->path.mnt); > + path->mnt = nd->path.mnt; > if (should_follow_link(dentry, nd->flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) > return 1; > + mntget(path->mnt); > follow_mount(path); > error = 0; > out: -- 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