In one of recent commits (v9.0.0-rc1~106) I've made our QEMU namespace code umount the original /dev. One of the reasons was enhanced security, because previously we just mounted a tmpfs over the original /dev. Thus a malicious QEMU could just umount("/dev") and it would get to the original /dev with all nodes. Now, on some systems this introduced a regression: failed to umount devfs on /dev: Device or resource busy But how this could be? We've moved all file systems mounted under /dev to a temporary location. Or have we? As it turns out, not quite. If there are two file systems mounted on the same target, e.g. like this: mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev/shm/ && mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev/shm/ then only the top most (i.e. the last one) is moved. See qemuDomainUnshareNamespace() for more info. Now, we could enhance our code to deal with these "doubled" mount points. Or, since it is the top most file system that is accessible anyways (and this one is preserved), we can umount("/dev") in a recursive fashion. Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167302 Fixes: 379c0ce4bfed8733dfbde557c359eecc5474ce38 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c b/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c index 5769a4dfe0..5fc043bd62 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_namespace.c @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ qemuDomainUnshareNamespace(virQEMUDriverConfig *cfg, } #if defined(__linux__) - if (umount("/dev") < 0) { + if (umount2("/dev", MNT_DETACH) < 0) { virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", _("failed to umount devfs on /dev")); return -1; }