diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/.gitignore
index 99f89d329db2..32125b3eaa80 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 clone3_empty_mntns_test
 empty_mntns_test
 overmount_chroot_test
+internal_sb_reconfigure_test
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/Makefile
index 22e3fb915e81..b64818b962ca 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/Makefile
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ CFLAGS += -Wall -O2 -g $(KHDR_INCLUDES) $(TOOLS_INCLUDES)
 LDLIBS += -lcap
 
 TEST_GEN_PROGS := empty_mntns_test overmount_chroot_test clone3_empty_mntns_test
+TEST_GEN_PROGS += internal_sb_reconfigure_test
 
 include ../../lib.mk
 
 $(OUTPUT)/empty_mntns_test: ../utils.c
 $(OUTPUT)/overmount_chroot_test: ../utils.c
 $(OUTPUT)/clone3_empty_mntns_test: ../utils.c
+$(OUTPUT)/internal_sb_reconfigure_test: ../utils.c
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/internal_sb_reconfigure_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/internal_sb_reconfigure_test.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cb645d1e5a9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/filesystems/empty_mntns/internal_sb_reconfigure_test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * The root of an empty mount namespace is a nullfs mount. Its superblock is
+ * kernel-internal and shared by every mount namespace. It can't be
+ * reconfigured, neither through fspick() nor through mount(MS_REMOUNT) nor
+ * through umount() of the root which remounts it read-only.
+ */
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/mount.h>
+#include <sys/statfs.h>
+#include <sys/statvfs.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <sys/vfs.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "../utils.h"
+#include "../wrappers.h"
+#include "empty_mntns.h"
+#include "kselftest_harness.h"
+
+#ifndef __NR_fspick
+#define __NR_fspick 433
+#endif
+
+static int sys_fspick(int dfd, const char *path, unsigned int flags)
+{
+	return syscall(__NR_fspick, dfd, path, flags);
+}
+
+/* Child exit codes. */
+enum {
+	CHILD_OK,
+	CHILD_USERNS,		/* could not create the user namespace */
+	CHILD_UNSHARE,		/* could not create the empty mount namespace */
+	CHILD_FSPICK,		/* fspick() of the root was not refused with EINVAL */
+	CHILD_REMOUNT,		/* mount(MS_REMOUNT) was not refused with EINVAL */
+	CHILD_UMOUNT,		/* umount() of the root succeeded */
+	CHILD_STATFS,		/* statfs() of the root failed */
+	CHILD_RDONLY,		/* the root ended up read-only */
+};
+
+static int empty_mntns_child(void)
+{
+	struct statfs st;
+
+	if (enter_userns())
+		return CHILD_USERNS;
+	if (unshare(UNSHARE_EMPTY_MNTNS))
+		return CHILD_UNSHARE;
+
+	if (sys_fspick(AT_FDCWD, "/", 0) >= 0 || errno != EINVAL)
+		return CHILD_FSPICK;
+	if (!mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_REMOUNT | MS_RDONLY, NULL) ||
+	    errno != EINVAL)
+		return CHILD_REMOUNT;
+	if (!umount2("/", 0))
+		return CHILD_UMOUNT;
+	if (statfs("/", &st))
+		return CHILD_STATFS;
+	if (st.f_flags & ST_RDONLY)
+		return CHILD_RDONLY;
+	return CHILD_OK;
+}
+
+FIXTURE(internal_sb_reconfigure) {};
+
+FIXTURE_SETUP(internal_sb_reconfigure)
+{
+	pid_t pid;
+	int status;
+
+	pid = fork();
+	ASSERT_GE(pid, 0);
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		if (enter_userns())
+			_exit(1);
+		if (unshare(UNSHARE_EMPTY_MNTNS))
+			_exit(1);
+		_exit(0);
+	}
+	ASSERT_EQ(waitpid(pid, &status, 0), pid);
+	if (!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status))
+		SKIP(return, "UNSHARE_EMPTY_MNTNS not supported");
+}
+
+FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(internal_sb_reconfigure) {}
+
+TEST_F(internal_sb_reconfigure, nullfs_root)
+{
+	pid_t pid;
+	int status;
+
+	pid = fork();
+	ASSERT_GE(pid, 0);
+	if (pid == 0)
+		_exit(empty_mntns_child());
+	ASSERT_EQ(waitpid(pid, &status, 0), pid);
+	ASSERT_TRUE(WIFEXITED(status));
+	ASSERT_EQ(WEXITSTATUS(status), CHILD_OK);
+}
+
+TEST_HARNESS_MAIN