diff --git a/fs/netfs/Makefile b/fs/netfs/Makefile
index f684c0cd1ec5..386d6fb92793 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/netfs/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 netfs-y := \
 	buffered_read.o \
 	io.o \
+	iterator.o \
 	main.o \
 	objects.o
 
diff --git a/fs/netfs/iterator.c b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6f0d79080abc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/netfs/iterator.c
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/* Iterator helpers.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2022 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ */
+
+#include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/netfs.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
+/**
+ * netfs_extract_user_iter - Extract the pages from a user iterator into a bvec
+ * @orig: The original iterator
+ * @orig_len: The amount of iterator to copy
+ * @new: The iterator to be set up
+ * @extraction_flags: Flags to qualify the request
+ *
+ * Extract the page fragments from the given amount of the source iterator and
+ * build up a second iterator that refers to all of those bits.  This allows
+ * the original iterator to disposed of.
+ *
+ * @extraction_flags can have ITER_ALLOW_P2PDMA set to request peer-to-peer DMA be
+ * allowed on the pages extracted.
+ *
+ * On success, the number of elements in the bvec is returned, the original
+ * iterator will have been advanced by the amount extracted.
+ *
+ * The iov_iter_extract_mode() function should be used to query how cleanup
+ * should be performed.
+ */
+ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len,
+				struct iov_iter *new,
+				iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags)
+{
+	struct bio_vec *bv = NULL;
+	struct page **pages;
+	unsigned int cur_npages;
+	unsigned int max_pages;
+	unsigned int npages = 0;
+	unsigned int i;
+	ssize_t ret;
+	size_t count = orig_len, offset, len;
+	size_t bv_size, pg_size;
+
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!iter_is_ubuf(orig) && !iter_is_iovec(orig)))
+		return -EIO;
+
+	max_pages = iov_iter_npages(orig, INT_MAX);
+	bv_size = array_size(max_pages, sizeof(*bv));
+	bv = kvmalloc(bv_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!bv)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	/* Put the page list at the end of the bvec list storage.  bvec
+	 * elements are larger than page pointers, so as long as we work
+	 * 0->last, we should be fine.
+	 */
+	pg_size = array_size(max_pages, sizeof(*pages));
+	pages = (void *)bv + bv_size - pg_size;
+
+	while (count && npages < max_pages) {
+		ret = iov_iter_extract_pages(orig, &pages, count,
+					     max_pages - npages, extraction_flags,
+					     &offset);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			pr_err("Couldn't get user pages (rc=%zd)\n", ret);
+			break;
+		}
+
+		if (ret > count) {
+			pr_err("get_pages rc=%zd more than %zu\n", ret, count);
+			break;
+		}
+
+		count -= ret;
+		ret += offset;
+		cur_npages = DIV_ROUND_UP(ret, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+		if (npages + cur_npages > max_pages) {
+			pr_err("Out of bvec array capacity (%u vs %u)\n",
+			       npages + cur_npages, max_pages);
+			break;
+		}
+
+		for (i = 0; i < cur_npages; i++) {
+			len = ret > PAGE_SIZE ? PAGE_SIZE : ret;
+			bv[npages + i].bv_page	 = *pages++;
+			bv[npages + i].bv_offset = offset;
+			bv[npages + i].bv_len	 = len - offset;
+			ret -= len;
+			offset = 0;
+		}
+
+		npages += cur_npages;
+	}
+
+	iov_iter_bvec(new, orig->data_source, bv, npages, orig_len - count);
+	return npages;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netfs_extract_user_iter);
diff --git a/include/linux/netfs.h b/include/linux/netfs.h
index 4c76ddfb6a67..b11a84f6c32b 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfs.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 
 enum netfs_sreq_ref_trace;
 
@@ -296,6 +297,9 @@ void netfs_get_subrequest(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq,
 void netfs_put_subrequest(struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq,
 			  bool was_async, enum netfs_sreq_ref_trace what);
 void netfs_stats_show(struct seq_file *);
+ssize_t netfs_extract_user_iter(struct iov_iter *orig, size_t orig_len,
+				struct iov_iter *new,
+				iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags);
 
 /**
  * netfs_inode - Get the netfs inode context from the inode