FAILED: patch "[PATCH] io_uring/kbuf: don't charge provided buffer rings to" failed to apply to 7.2-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 7.2-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-7.2.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x cde56daf4b93f474dc256dbcc5205035223ae6f5
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026101232-grew-smuggler-50c9@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 7.2.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From cde56daf4b93f474dc256dbcc5205035223ae6f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 13:07:38 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] io_uring/kbuf: don't charge provided buffer rings to
 RLIMIT_MEMLOCK

Just like with the SQ and CQ rings, the provided buffer rings were also
not charged against the memlock limit prior to the below mentioned
commit. Restore that behavior.

Fixes: ef62de3c4ad5 ("io_uring/kbuf: use region api for pbuf rings")
Reported-by: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Hengyu Liang <hengyul@cs.unc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

diff --git a/io_uring/kbuf.c b/io_uring/kbuf.c
index 7c59ab9cfc8b..6e2facf34bfa 100644
--- a/io_uring/kbuf.c
+++ b/io_uring/kbuf.c
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static int io_remove_buffers_legacy(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx,
 static void io_put_bl(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_buffer_list *bl)
 {
 	if (bl->flags & IOBL_BUF_RING)
-		io_free_region(ctx->user, &bl->region);
+		io_free_region(NULL, &bl->region);
 	else
 		io_remove_buffers_legacy(ctx, bl, -1U);
 
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ int io_register_pbuf_ring(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg)
 		rd.user_addr = reg.ring_addr;
 		rd.flags |= IORING_MEM_REGION_TYPE_USER;
 	}
-	ret = io_create_region(ctx->user, &bl->region, &rd, mmap_offset);
+	ret = io_create_region(NULL, &bl->region, &rd, mmap_offset);
 	if (ret)
 		goto fail;
 	br = io_region_get_ptr(&bl->region);
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ int io_register_pbuf_ring(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, void __user *arg)
 	if (!ret)
 		return 0;
 fail:
-	io_free_region(ctx->user, &bl->region);
+	io_free_region(NULL, &bl->region);
 	kfree(bl);
 	return ret;
 }