I just analyzed causes of hang while calling umount without -f on an unreachable NFS. The first hang happens on in lookup_umount_fs(): stat(tgt, &st) == 0 && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) I don't exactly know, what its removal causes, but I tried it. I entered into next hang in mnt_resolve_path() inside has_utab_entry(). We cannot prevent this hang in all cases, but preventing it in a standard situation is pretty straightforward: Try to match provided target name before trying to canonicalize. Now my umount without -f works well at least in the case, when the mount point is recorded in the utab. If it is not recorded in utab, it still hangs later in lookup_umount_fs() on: if (statfs(tgt, &vfs) == 0) Well, we can prevent even this hang, but it would be at cost of parsing mtab. I read your git comments and I see, that the whole purpose of the code is preventing of parsing of the generated mtab/mountinfo. Would be parsing of fstab a safe way without paying this cost? Here is my patch, which prevented at least part of these hangs. What do you think about it? Index: util-linux-2.25/libmount/src/context_umount.c =================================================================== --- util-linux-2.25.orig/libmount/src/context_umount.c +++ util-linux-2.25/libmount/src/context_umount.c @@ -216,6 +255,14 @@ static int has_utab_entry(struct libmnt_ /* paths in utab are canonicalized */ cache = mnt_context_get_cache(cxt); + + /* first search for target as it is - mnt_resolve_path() can fail on unreachable NFS */ + mnt_reset_iter(&itr, MNT_ITER_BACKWARD); + + while (mnt_table_next_fs(cxt->utab, &itr, &fs) == 0) { + if (mnt_fs_streq_target(fs, target)) + return 1; + } cn = mnt_resolve_path(target, cache); mnt_reset_iter(&itr, MNT_ITER_BACKWARD); @@ -232,7 +279,6 @@ static int has_utab_entry(struct libmnt_ static int lookup_umount_fs(struct libmnt_context *cxt) { const char *tgt; - struct stat st; struct libmnt_fs *fs = NULL; int rc = 0; @@ -262,7 +308,6 @@ static int lookup_umount_fs(struct libmn && !mnt_context_mtab_writable(cxt) && !mnt_context_is_force(cxt) && !mnt_context_is_lazy(cxt) - && stat(tgt, &st) == 0 && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) && !has_utab_entry(cxt, tgt)) { const char *type = mnt_fs_get_fstype(cxt->fs); -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbrabec@xxxxxxx Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +49 911 7405384547 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 084 001 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ PGP: 830B 40D5 9E05 35D8 5E27 6FA3 717C 209F A04F CD76 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html