Magic Buffers and io_uring Registered Buffers

Some Assembly Required Magic Buffers and io_uring Registered Buffers kdb kdb-IPC io_uring Published October 17, 2025 There’s a really cool little mmap gadget that maps the same underlying memory region into two contiguous virtual memory address ranges. When you write past the end of the first mapped region, the remaining bytes end up in the second mapped region (and at the start of the first one). Fabien Giesen calls this a “Magic Ring Buffer”, which is good enough for me. I wondered whether the