dm-writecache doesn't work in pmem mode - mkfs.ext4 and the following fsck.ext4 fail with data corruption reported. The commit 7dd76d1feec7 ("dm: improve bio splitting and associated IO accounting") introduced a latent bug in dm_accept_partial_bio - it set tio->io->sectors = n_sectors;. This is incorrect, according to the diagram in the source code at dm_accept_partial_bio, it should be the size of regions 1+2, not the region 2 alone. The latent bug become real bug with the commit 8b211aaccb91 ("dm: add two stage requeue mechanism"). dm-writecache in pmem mode is the only target that actually advances bio with bio_advance and then calls dm_accept_partial_bio (so, the region 1 is non-empty). All the other targets call dm_accept_partial_bio with region 1 empty, so bug went unnoticed for so long. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8b211aaccb91 ("dm: add two stage requeue mechanism")