- * allocation; but the inode might already be freed by now,
- * and we cannot refer to inode or mapping or info to check.
- * However, we do hold page lock on the PageSwapCache page,
- * so can check if that still has our reference remaining.
+ * allocation, but the inode might have been freed while we
+ * dropped it: although a racing shmem_evict_inode() cannot
+ * complete without emptying the radix_tree, our page lock
+ * on this swapcache page is not enough to prevent that -
+ * free_swap_and_cache() of our swap entry will only
+ * trylock_page(), removing swap from radix_tree whatever.
+ *
+ * We must not proceed to shmem_add_to_page_cache() if the
+ * inode has been freed, but of course we cannot rely on
+ * inode or mapping or info to check that. However, we can
+ * safely check if our swap entry is still in use (and here
+ * it can't have got reused for another page): if it's still
+ * in use, then the inode cannot have been freed yet, and we
+ * can safely proceed (if it's no longer in use, that tells
+ * nothing about the inode, but we don't need to unuse swap).