CentOS 7 unable to cleanly umount a bind mount using rbind and rslave

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The following sequence of commands will fail on CentOS 7 (kernel version: 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64):

[hidden]$ mkdir -p A B/a C/b
[hidden]$ sudo mount --bind A B/a
[hidden]$ sudo mount --rbind B C/b
[hidden]$ sudo mount --make-rslave C/b
[hidden]$ sudo umount C/b/a
[hidden]$ sudo umount C/b
[hidden]$ rmdir C/b
rmdir: failed to remove ‘C/b’: Device or resource busy

None of mount, cat /proc/mounts, cat /etc/mtab, sudo lsof, sudo fuser C/b shows any process using the directory C/b; stat C/b shows it is different inode than B, meaning it has already been unmounted successfully.

These commands are the smallest example to reproduce an issue I found when I tried to rbind /dev and /proc to a sandbox, and failed when I tried to destroy the sandbox. make-rslave is necessary here, otherwise submounts under /dev/ will be unmounted, which messes up the system.

These commands work for Ubuntu 14.04 (kernel version 3.13.xx) and Fedora 23 (kernel version 4.x).

My question is, if I have to stick to CentOS 7 for some reason, how do I work around the issue and destroy the sandbox cleanly?

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/263972/unmount-a-rbind-mount-without-affecting-the-original-mount — ILMostro_7, Jun 30 '16 at 02:36
@ILMostro_7, the link you posted is also from me. The problem is still not solved. — icando, Jul 01 '16 at 03:03

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '16 at 23:04

Try doing umount -a within the chroot environment; Then, exit and umount -l if umount -R fails.

(chroot) # umount -a
(chroot) # exit
(liveos) # 
(liveos) # umount -R /mnt/point/
(liveos) # umount -l /mnt/point/




-R, --recursive
              Recursively  unmount  each specified directory.  Recursion for each directory will stop if any unmount
              operation in the chain fails for any reason.  The relationship between mountpoints  is  determined  by
              /proc/self/mountinfo  entries.   The  filesystem  must  be  specified  by mountpoint path; a recursive
              unmount by device name (or UUID) is unsupported.

-l, --lazy
              Lazy unmount.  Detach the filesystem from the file hierarchy now, and clean up all references to  this
              filesystem as soon as it is not busy anymore.  (Requires kernel 2.4.11 or later.)

"None of mount, cat /proc/mounts, cat /etc/mtab ... shows any process using the directory C/b". We've done the `umount -R` part successfully. There is no mount left to run `umount -l` on - it would return "not mounted". But `rmdir C/b` is still returning "Device or resource busy". — sourcejedi, Jan 11 '19 at 14:27
Also `umount -a` inside a chroot is probably not a good idea! If the container root is a mount point, it will remount it read-only. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/466535/why-does-the-linux-kernel-support-umount — sourcejedi, Jan 11 '19 at 14:31

CentOS 7 unable to cleanly umount a bind mount using rbind and rslave

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