I tested 4.4.0-22.38_amd64 on Ubuntu 14.04 with an overlay over an NFS4 mount (same situation as in comment #7) and the crash when reading existing files from the lower layer is gone.
I did not test overlay over NFS3. I still cannot successfully write to files that exist in the lower layer ("Operation not supported"), only to new files, but I guess this is not in the scope of this bug report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566471 Title: kernel oops: NULL pointer dereference in nfs_inode_attach_open_context+0x37/0x70 [nfs] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1566471/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs