1) A description of what you think the bug is: when using readwrite=randread and do_verify=1, fio always fails with 'Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character' 2) Environment (Linux distro version, kernel version). This is mostly needed if it's a build bug. CentOS 7(fio 3.1-2) CentOS 7(build from github.com/axboe/fio, master) Ubuntu 18.04(fio 3.1-1) 3) The output from fio --version. See above 4) How to reproduce. Please include a full list of the parameters passed to fio and the job file used (if any). [global] ioengine=libaio direct=1 group_reporting iodepth=128 bs=1M readwrite=randread size=500MB do_verify=1 verify=crc32c-intel [test] filename=test