diff --git a/io_uring/io_uring.c b/io_uring/io_uring.c
index 7505de2428e0..679bea7c41a6 100644
--- a/io_uring/io_uring.c
+++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c
@@ -4601,8 +4601,20 @@ static int __init io_uring_init(void)
 
 	io_uring_optable_init();
 
-	req_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(io_kiocb, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC |
-				SLAB_ACCOUNT | SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU);
+	/*
+	 * Allow user copy in the per-command field, which starts after the
+	 * file in io_kiocb and until the opcode field. The openat2 handling
+	 * requires copying in user memory into the io_kiocb object in that
+	 * range, and HARDENED_USERCOPY will complain if we haven't
+	 * correctly annotated this range.
+	 */
+	req_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("io_kiocb",
+				sizeof(struct io_kiocb), 0,
+				SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC |
+				SLAB_ACCOUNT | SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU,
+				offsetof(struct io_kiocb, cmd.data),
+				sizeof_field(struct io_kiocb, cmd.data), NULL);
+
 	return 0;
 };
 __initcall(io_uring_init);