Using my testsuite, I see the attached moan from lockdep. Unfortunately, it doesn't cause the testsuite to actually fail, so I'm going to have to manually try and isolate the failing test. David ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 3.18.0-rc2-fsdevel+ #910 Tainted: G W --------------------------------------------- run/2642 is trying to acquire lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81203d81>] ovl_cleanup_whiteouts+0x29/0xb4 but task is already holding lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113abff>] lock_rename+0xb7/0xd7 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1); lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1); *** DEADLOCK *** May be due to missing lock nesting notation 7 locks held by run/2642: #0: (sb_writers#15){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8114a1e2>] mnt_want_write+0x1f/0x46 #1: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#17/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113c737>] do_rmdir+0xa9/0x165 #2: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#17){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113c0ad>] vfs_rmdir+0x5a/0x115 #3: (sb_writers#8){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8114a1e2>] mnt_want_write+0x1f/0x46 #4: (&type->s_vfs_rename_key){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113ab88>] lock_rename+0x40/0xd7 #5: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113abff>] lock_rename+0xb7/0xd7 #6: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/2){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113ac15>] lock_rename+0xcd/0xd7 stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 2642 Comm: run Tainted: G W 3.18.0-rc2-fsdevel+ #910 Hardware name: /DG965RY, BIOS MQ96510J.86A.0816.2006.0716.2308 07/16/2006 ffffffff823989e0 ffff880038d8fa68 ffffffff815222f2 0000000000000006 ffffffff823989e0 ffff880038d8fb38 ffffffff810738f4 000000000000000b ffff880037ebc710 ffff880038d8fb00 ffff880037ebcf58 0000000000000005 Call Trace: [<ffffffff815222f2>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x68 [<ffffffff810738f4>] __lock_acquire+0x7b5/0x1a17 [<ffffffff8107522d>] lock_acquire+0xa3/0x11d [<ffffffff81203d81>] ? ovl_cleanup_whiteouts+0x29/0xb4 [<ffffffff8111ff14>] ? kfree+0x17e/0x1ca [<ffffffff8152580a>] mutex_lock_nested+0x5a/0x304 [<ffffffff81203d81>] ? ovl_cleanup_whiteouts+0x29/0xb4 [<ffffffff81139123>] ? vfs_rename+0x602/0x689 [<ffffffff81203d81>] ovl_cleanup_whiteouts+0x29/0xb4 [<ffffffff81202252>] ovl_clear_empty+0x195/0x216 [<ffffffff81202315>] ovl_check_empty_and_clear+0x42/0x5d [<ffffffff81056944>] ? creds_are_invalid+0x17/0x4a [<ffffffff81202a19>] ovl_do_remove+0x189/0x36a [<ffffffff81202c0b>] ovl_rmdir+0x11/0x13 [<ffffffff8113c0f2>] vfs_rmdir+0x9f/0x115 [<ffffffff8113c784>] do_rmdir+0xf6/0x165 [<ffffffff8100d224>] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x4a/0x4c [<ffffffff8100e43f>] ? syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0x178/0x1c1 [<ffffffff810e5aae>] ? context_tracking_user_exit+0x54/0xce [<ffffffff8113d007>] SyS_rmdir+0x11/0x13 [<ffffffff81528a09>] tracesys_phase2+0xd4/0xd9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html