From: harshal24-chavan <harshal24.chavan@gmail.com>
To: io-uring@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: krisman@kernel.org, kees@kernel.org, gustavoars@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
harshal24-chavan <harshal24.chavan@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] io_uring/register: add IORING_REGISTER_CLONE_FILES opcode
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:27:00 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260619065700.12465-1-harshal24.chavan@gmail.com> (raw)
Currently, if an application wants to duplicate registered file
descriptors from one io_uring instance to another, it must manually
unregister and re-register them, incurring unnecessary overhead.
Add IORING_REGISTER_CLONE_FILES to allow direct cloning of the file
table from a source ring to a destination ring. This implementation
strictly mirrors the io_clone_buffers UAPI, supporting partial offsets
and the IORING_REGISTER_DST_REPLACE flag.
To ensure lock synchronization safety, destination nodes are strictly
allocated as new, private io_rsrc_nodes rather than sharing references
across rings.
---
v3:
- Rewrote the cloning loop to allocate private destination nodes via io_rsrc_node_alloc to fix non-atomic ref lock synchronization (Jens).
- Maintained partial offset/copy support to mirror io_clone_buffers UAPI (Jens).
- Gated the replacement free check on ctx->file_table.data.nr (Gabriel).
- Prevented self-cloning by checking ctx == src_ctx (Gabriel).
- Removed submitter_task check to allow cross-thread pooling setups (Gabriel).
v2: Dropped unrelated whitespace formatting changes from v1
Signed-off-by: harshal24-chavan <harshal24.chavan@gmail.com>
---
include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h | 12 +++
io_uring/register.c | 6 ++
io_uring/rsrc.c | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
io_uring/rsrc.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 168 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h b/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
index 909fb7aea638..0727602ce12f 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/io_uring.h
@@ -723,6 +723,9 @@ enum io_uring_register_op {
/* register bpf filtering programs */
IORING_REGISTER_BPF_FILTER = 37,
+ /* clone file descriptors from another ring*/
+ IORING_REGISTER_CLONE_FILES = 38,
+
/* this goes last */
IORING_REGISTER_LAST,
@@ -854,6 +857,15 @@ struct io_uring_clone_buffers {
__u32 pad[3];
};
+struct io_uring_clone_files {
+ __u32 src_fd;
+ __u32 flags;
+ __u32 src_off;
+ __u32 dst_off;
+ __u32 nr;
+ __u32 pad[3];
+};
+
struct io_uring_buf {
__u64 addr;
__u32 len;
diff --git a/io_uring/register.c b/io_uring/register.c
index dce5e2f9cf77..bbc8c506ea2d 100644
--- a/io_uring/register.c
+++ b/io_uring/register.c
@@ -924,6 +924,12 @@ static int __io_uring_register(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, unsigned opcode,
break;
ret = io_register_clone_buffers(ctx, arg);
break;
+ case IORING_REGISTER_CLONE_FILES:
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ if (!arg || nr_args != 1)
+ break;
+ ret = io_register_clone_files(ctx, arg);
+ break;
case IORING_REGISTER_ZCRX_IFQ:
ret = -EINVAL;
if (!arg || nr_args != 1)
diff --git a/io_uring/rsrc.c b/io_uring/rsrc.c
index 650303626be6..a598e5af4c0a 100644
--- a/io_uring/rsrc.c
+++ b/io_uring/rsrc.c
@@ -1303,6 +1303,155 @@ int io_register_clone_buffers(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg)
return ret;
}
+static int io_clone_file_node(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
+ struct io_rsrc_node *src_node,
+ int dst_index,
+ struct io_file_table *new_table)
+{
+ struct io_rsrc_node *dst_node;
+ struct file *file;
+
+ dst_node = io_rsrc_node_alloc(ctx, IORING_RSRC_FILE);
+ if (!dst_node)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ file = io_slot_file(src_node);
+ get_file(file);
+ io_fixed_file_set(dst_node, file);
+
+ new_table->data.nodes[dst_index] = dst_node;
+ io_file_bitmap_set(new_table, dst_index);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int io_clone_files(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_ring_ctx *src_ctx,
+ struct io_uring_clone_files *arg)
+{
+ struct io_file_table new_file_table;
+ unsigned int dst_nr = ctx->file_table.data.nr;
+ unsigned int src_nr = src_ctx->file_table.data.nr;
+ unsigned int new_nr, i;
+
+ lockdep_assert_held(&ctx->uring_lock);
+ lockdep_assert_held(&src_ctx->uring_lock);
+
+ if (ctx->user != src_ctx->user || ctx->mm_account != src_ctx->mm_account)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (dst_nr && !(arg->flags & IORING_REGISTER_DST_REPLACE))
+ return -EBUSY;
+
+ if (!src_nr)
+ return -ENXIO;
+
+ if (!arg->nr)
+ arg->nr = src_nr;
+ else if (arg->nr > src_nr)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (check_add_overflow(arg->src_off, arg->nr, &i) || i > src_nr)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (check_add_overflow(arg->dst_off, arg->nr, &i))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ new_nr = max(dst_nr, arg->dst_off + arg->nr);
+ if (new_nr > IORING_MAX_FIXED_FILES)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ memset(&new_file_table, 0, sizeof(new_file_table));
+ if (!io_alloc_file_tables(ctx, &new_file_table, new_nr))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ /* Copy original nodes from before the cloned range */
+ for (i = 0; i < min(arg->dst_off, dst_nr); i++) {
+ struct io_rsrc_node *src_node = io_rsrc_node_lookup(&ctx->file_table.data, i);
+
+ if (!src_node)
+ continue;
+ if (io_clone_file_node(ctx, src_node, i, &new_file_table))
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /* Copy the actual cloned range from the source ring */
+ for (i = 0; i < arg->nr; i++) {
+ struct io_rsrc_node *src_node = io_rsrc_node_lookup(&src_ctx->file_table.data,
+ arg->src_off + i);
+
+ if (!src_node)
+ continue;
+ if (io_clone_file_node(ctx, src_node, arg->dst_off + i, &new_file_table))
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /* Copy original nodes from after the cloned range */
+ for (i = arg->dst_off + arg->nr; i < dst_nr; i++) {
+ struct io_rsrc_node *src_node = io_rsrc_node_lookup(&ctx->file_table.data, i);
+
+ if (!src_node)
+ continue;
+ if (io_clone_file_node(ctx, src_node, i, &new_file_table))
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /* free the old file table if there is any data present */
+ if (dst_nr)
+ io_free_file_tables(ctx, &ctx->file_table);
+
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->file_table.data.nr);
+ ctx->file_table = new_file_table;
+ io_file_table_set_alloc_range(ctx, 0, ctx->file_table.data.nr);
+ return 0;
+
+out:
+ /* Error Path: Safely destroy whatever we partially built */
+ io_free_file_tables(ctx, &new_file_table);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+int io_register_clone_files(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg)
+{
+ struct io_uring_clone_files clone_arg;
+ struct io_ring_ctx *src_ctx;
+ bool registered_src;
+ struct file *file;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(&clone_arg, arg, sizeof(clone_arg)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (clone_arg.flags &
+ ~(IORING_REGISTER_SRC_REGISTERED | IORING_REGISTER_DST_REPLACE))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (memchr_inv(clone_arg.pad, 0, sizeof(clone_arg.pad)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ registered_src = (clone_arg.flags & IORING_REGISTER_SRC_REGISTERED) != 0;
+ file = io_uring_ctx_get_file(clone_arg.src_fd, registered_src);
+ if (IS_ERR(file))
+ return PTR_ERR(file);
+
+ src_ctx = file->private_data;
+ /* Same ring clone is not allowed */
+ if (src_ctx == ctx) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ mutex_unlock(&ctx->uring_lock);
+ lock_two_rings(ctx, src_ctx);
+
+ ret = io_clone_files(ctx, src_ctx, &clone_arg);
+
+out:
+ if (src_ctx != ctx)
+ mutex_unlock(&src_ctx->uring_lock);
+
+ if (!registered_src)
+ fput(file);
+ return ret;
+}
+
void io_vec_free(struct iou_vec *iv)
{
if (!iv->iovec)
diff --git a/io_uring/rsrc.h b/io_uring/rsrc.h
index 44e3386f7c1c..32f5c47c46af 100644
--- a/io_uring/rsrc.h
+++ b/io_uring/rsrc.h
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ int io_prep_reg_iovec(struct io_kiocb *req, struct iou_vec *iv,
const struct iovec __user *uvec, size_t uvec_segs);
int io_register_clone_buffers(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg);
+int io_register_clone_files(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg);
int io_sqe_buffers_unregister(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx);
int io_sqe_buffers_register(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg,
unsigned int nr_args, u64 __user *tags);
--
2.54.0
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2026-06-19 7:54 ` [PATCH v3] io_uring/register: add IORING_REGISTER_CLONE_FILES opcode Greg KH
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