ath, and will mark /mnt/data as being a mountpoint. This will cause the automount code to be triggered. !!! Do not look inside the mounted fs at this point !!! (2) Run the above program on a file within the submount to generate two simultaneous automount requests: /tmp/forkstat /mnt/data/testfile (3) Unmount the automounted submount: umount /mnt/data (4) Unmount the original mount: umount /mnt At this point the kernel should throw a BUG with something like the following: BUG: Dentry ffff880032e3c5c0{i=2,n=} still in use (1) [unmount of nfs4 0:12] Note that the bug appears on the root dentry of the original mount, not the mountpoint and not the submount because sys_umount() hasn't got to its final mntput_no_expire() yet, but this isn't so obvious from the call trace: [] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x69/0x82 [] generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x15b [] ? nfs_super_return_all_delegations+0x2e/0x1b1 [nfs] [] kill_anon_super+0x1d/0x7e [] nfs4_kill_super+0x60/0xb6 [nfs] [] deactivate_locked_super+0x34/0x83 [] deactivate_super+0x6f/0x7b [] mntput_no_expire+0x18d/0x199 [] mntput+0x3b/0x44 [] release_mounts+0xa2/0xbf [] sys_umount+0x47a/0x4ba [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1fd/0x22f [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b as do_umount() is inlined. However, you can see release_mounts() in there. Note also that it may be necessary to have multiple CPU cores to be able to trigger this bug. Tested-by: Jeff Layton Tested-by: Ian Kent Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro Ç