diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/.gitignore
index 52ae618fdd980ee22424d35d79f077077b132401..e23a18c8b37f2cdbb121496b1df1faffd729ad79 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 dev_in_maps
+set_layers_via_fds
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/Makefile
index 56b2b48a765b1d6706faee14616597ed0315f267..e8d1adb021af44588dd7af1049de66833bb584ce 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
-TEST_GEN_PROGS := dev_in_maps
+TEST_GEN_PROGS := dev_in_maps set_layers_via_fds
 
 CFLAGS := -Wall -Werror
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/set_layers_via_fds.c b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/set_layers_via_fds.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..301fb5c02852e3ddff2f649b61c2833ce555df36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/set_layers_via_fds.c
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#define __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ // Use ll64
+
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/mount.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "../../kselftest_harness.h"
+#include "log.h"
+#include "wrappers.h"
+
+FIXTURE(set_layers_via_fds) {
+};
+
+FIXTURE_SETUP(set_layers_via_fds)
+{
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdir("/set_layers_via_fds", 0755), 0);
+}
+
+FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(set_layers_via_fds)
+{
+	umount2("/set_layers_via_fds", 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(rmdir("/set_layers_via_fds"), 0);
+}
+
+TEST_F(set_layers_via_fds, set_layers_via_fds)
+{
+	int fd_context, fd_tmpfs, fd_overlay;
+	int layer_fds[] = { [0 ... 8] = -EBADF };
+	bool layers_found[] = { [0 ... 8] =  false };
+	size_t len = 0;
+	char *line = NULL;
+	FILE *f_mountinfo;
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(unshare(CLONE_NEWNS), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_SLAVE | MS_REC, NULL), 0);
+
+	fd_context = sys_fsopen("tmpfs", 0);
+	ASSERT_GE(fd_context, 0);
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0), 0);
+	fd_tmpfs = sys_fsmount(fd_context, 0, 0);
+	ASSERT_GE(fd_tmpfs, 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(close(fd_context), 0);
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "w", 0755), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "u", 0755), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "l1", 0755), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "l2", 0755), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "l3", 0755), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "l4", 0755), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "d1", 0755), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "d2", 0755), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mkdirat(fd_tmpfs, "d3", 0755), 0);
+
+	layer_fds[0] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "w", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[0], 0);
+
+	layer_fds[1] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "u", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[1], 0);
+
+	layer_fds[2] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "l1", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[2], 0);
+
+	layer_fds[3] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "l2", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[3], 0);
+
+	layer_fds[4] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "l3", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[4], 0);
+
+	layer_fds[5] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "l4", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[5], 0);
+
+	layer_fds[6] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "d1", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[6], 0);
+
+	layer_fds[7] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "d2", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[7], 0);
+
+	layer_fds[8] = openat(fd_tmpfs, "d3", O_DIRECTORY);
+	ASSERT_GE(layer_fds[8], 0);
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_move_mount(fd_tmpfs, "", -EBADF, "/tmp", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(close(fd_tmpfs), 0);
+
+	fd_context = sys_fsopen("overlay", 0);
+	ASSERT_GE(fd_context, 0);
+
+	ASSERT_NE(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir", NULL, layer_fds[2]), 0);
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "workdir",   NULL, layer_fds[0]), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "upperdir",  NULL, layer_fds[1]), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, layer_fds[2]), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, layer_fds[3]), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, layer_fds[4]), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, layer_fds[5]), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "datadir+",  NULL, layer_fds[6]), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "datadir+",  NULL, layer_fds[7]), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "datadir+",  NULL, layer_fds[8]), 0);
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "metacopy", "on", 0), 0);
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_fsconfig(fd_context, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0), 0);
+
+	fd_overlay = sys_fsmount(fd_context, 0, 0);
+	ASSERT_GE(fd_overlay, 0);
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(sys_move_mount(fd_overlay, "", -EBADF, "/set_layers_via_fds", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH), 0);
+
+	f_mountinfo = fopen("/proc/self/mountinfo", "r");
+	ASSERT_NE(f_mountinfo, NULL);
+
+	while (getline(&line, &len, f_mountinfo) != -1) {
+		char *haystack = line;
+
+		if (strstr(haystack, "workdir=/tmp/w"))
+			layers_found[0] = true;
+		if (strstr(haystack, "upperdir=/tmp/u"))
+			layers_found[1] = true;
+		if (strstr(haystack, "lowerdir+=/tmp/l1"))
+			layers_found[2] = true;
+		if (strstr(haystack, "lowerdir+=/tmp/l2"))
+			layers_found[3] = true;
+		if (strstr(haystack, "lowerdir+=/tmp/l3"))
+			layers_found[4] = true;
+		if (strstr(haystack, "lowerdir+=/tmp/l4"))
+			layers_found[5] = true;
+		if (strstr(haystack, "datadir+=/tmp/d1"))
+			layers_found[6] = true;
+		if (strstr(haystack, "datadir+=/tmp/d2"))
+			layers_found[7] = true;
+		if (strstr(haystack, "datadir+=/tmp/d3"))
+			layers_found[8] = true;
+	}
+	free(line);
+
+	for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(layer_fds); i++) {
+		ASSERT_EQ(layers_found[i], true);
+		ASSERT_EQ(close(layer_fds[i]), 0);
+	}
+
+	ASSERT_EQ(close(fd_context), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(close(fd_overlay), 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(fclose(f_mountinfo), 0);
+}
+
+TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/wrappers.h b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/wrappers.h
index 4f99e10f7f018fd9a7be5263f68d34807da4c53c..071b95fd2ac0ad7b02d90e8e89df73fd27be69c3 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/wrappers.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/overlayfs/wrappers.h
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ static inline int sys_mount(const char *src, const char *tgt, const char *fst,
 	return syscall(__NR_mount, src, tgt, fst, flags, data);
 }
 
+#ifndef MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH
+#define MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH 0x00000004 /* Empty from path permitted */
+#endif
+
 static inline int sys_move_mount(int from_dfd, const char *from_pathname,
 				 int to_dfd, const char *to_pathname,
 				 unsigned int flags)
