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From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Cache coherency bug: stale reads on /dev/sda1
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 06:25:58PM -0700, Joshua Hudson wrote:
> I am presuming you mean "Are you sure this not a hardware issue?"
> 
> I am sure it is not, for two reasons.
> 
> 1) If it were a hardware issue I would still expect the two device
> nodes (whole disk and partition) to report the *same* data.
> 
> 2) I have since developed a workaround involving BLKFLSDEV. The
> workaround is really ugly.

Whole disk and all partitions have page caches of their own.
There is no coherency between those; write through one, then
read through another and you are not guaranteed that read won't
see the stale cached data.

Doctor, it hurts when I do it...

Incidentally, read from device/write to the place you've read via
file/read from device again also has no coherency warranties, for
exact same reason.

IOW, not a bug.