Re: [PATCH 2/5] new fscache interface to check cache consistency

[David Howells]

Milosz Tanski <milosz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If the cache is withdrawn and we're starting anew I would consider
> that to okay. I would consider an empty page cache for a cookie to be
> consistent since there's nothing stale that I can read. Unless there's
> another synchronization issue that I'm missing in fscache.

The problem is that the fscache_object struct may be deallocated whilst you're
using it.

David
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