Jeff Layton [off-list ref] wrote:

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fscache_cookie_put() accesses the cookie it has just put inside the
tracepoint that monitors the change - but this is something it's not
allowed to do if we didn't reduce the count to zero.

Do you mean "if the count went to zero." ?

No.  If *we* reduced the count to zero, it falls to us to destroy the object,
so we're allowed to look into it again.

If we didn't reduce the count to zero, then someone else might destroy it
before we look into it again.

David