[Linux-cachefs] [PATCH 2/5] new fscache interface to check cache consistency

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Sep 4 17:26:10 UTC 2013


Milosz Tanski <milosz at adfin.com> 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 If the cache is withdrawn and we're starting anew I would consider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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