diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 7f29544..a7bbe03 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -821,12 +821,76 @@
 	return res;
 }
 
+static int do_dup2(struct files_struct *files,
+	struct file *file, unsigned fd, unsigned flags)
+{
+	struct file *tofree;
+	struct fdtable *fdt;
+
+	/*
+	 * We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
+	 * not finished descriptor.  NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
+	 * extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
+	 * file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
+	 * more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
+	 * fget() treats larval files as absent.  Potentially interesting,
+	 * but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
+	 * and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
+	 * FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
+	 * deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS.  All of that is out of
+	 * scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
+	 * tables and this condition does not arise without those.
+	 */
+	fdt = files_fdtable(files);
+	tofree = fdt->fd[fd];
+	if (!tofree && fd_is_open(fd, fdt))
+		goto Ebusy;
+	get_file(file);
+	rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], file);
+	__set_open_fd(fd, fdt);
+	if (flags & O_CLOEXEC)
+		__set_close_on_exec(fd, fdt);
+	else
+		__clear_close_on_exec(fd, fdt);
+	spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
+
+	if (tofree)
+		filp_close(tofree, files);
+
+	return fd;
+
+Ebusy:
+	spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
+	return -EBUSY;
+}
+
+int replace_fd(unsigned fd, struct file *file, unsigned flags)
+{
+	int err;
+	struct files_struct *files = current->files;
+
+	if (!file)
+		return __close_fd(files, fd);
+
+	if (fd >= rlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE))
+		return -EMFILE;
+
+	spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
+	err = expand_files(files, fd);
+	if (unlikely(err < 0))
+		goto out_unlock;
+	return do_dup2(files, file, fd, flags);
+
+out_unlock:
+	spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
+	return err;
+}
+
 SYSCALL_DEFINE3(dup3, unsigned int, oldfd, unsigned int, newfd, int, flags)
 {
 	int err = -EBADF;
-	struct file * file, *tofree;
-	struct files_struct * files = current->files;
-	struct fdtable *fdt;
+	struct file *file;
+	struct files_struct *files = current->files;
 
 	if ((flags & ~O_CLOEXEC) != 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -844,38 +908,7 @@
 			goto Ebadf;
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
-	/*
-	 * We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
-	 * not finished descriptor.  NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
-	 * extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
-	 * file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
-	 * more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
-	 * fget() treats larval files as absent.  Potentially interesting,
-	 * but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
-	 * and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
-	 * FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
-	 * deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS.  All of that is out of
-	 * scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
-	 * tables and this condition does not arise without those.
-	 */
-	err = -EBUSY;
-	fdt = files_fdtable(files);
-	tofree = fdt->fd[newfd];
-	if (!tofree && fd_is_open(newfd, fdt))
-		goto out_unlock;
-	get_file(file);
-	rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[newfd], file);
-	__set_open_fd(newfd, fdt);
-	if (flags & O_CLOEXEC)
-		__set_close_on_exec(newfd, fdt);
-	else
-		__clear_close_on_exec(newfd, fdt);
-	spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
-
-	if (tofree)
-		filp_close(tofree, files);
-
-	return newfd;
+	return do_dup2(files, file, newfd, flags);
 
 Ebadf:
 	err = -EBADF;