Thanks for the report, I will work on getting this fix into our kernels.
Is there a simple way to test the fix?

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Seth Forshee (sforshee)

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Title:
  updates to aufs

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have found and reported a critical bug in aufs (as shipped with the
  latest Ubuntu kernels, both on Bionic and Xenial), which potentially
  affects anyone running Docker on Ubuntu using aufs graph driver. The
  fix has been developed, tested at least by me to fix the issue, and
  committed into upstream aufs git repos

  The nature of the bug is, in case of multiple parallels aufs mounts
  and unmounts, the kernel can screw up krefs, and once that happens,
  the only remedy is to reboot it (as commands like mount/umount or cat
  /proc/mounts are all stuck in syscalls).

  I would appreciate syncing aufs with the latest upstream release from
  git, as it was done a few times already, or at least taking the below
  fix (whatever suits maintainers better).

  The fixed versions are the ones marked with 20190610, and from what I
  see they are available for all kernel versions since 4.14 (for
  example, 4.15 tree is here:
  https://github.com/sfjro/aufs4-standalone/commits/aufs4.15). For 4.4,
  a backport might be needed, but it should be trivial.

  Original bug report:
  https://sourceforge.net/p/aufs/mailman/message/36680389/

  Fix:
  
https://github.com/sfjro/aufs4-linux/commit/b633d7b2635b9615fe294b85257d05008e3747a3

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