diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index dbca26e..0476fd3 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -46,27 +46,23 @@ static void free_fdtable_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
 #define BITBIT_NR(nr)	BITS_TO_LONGS(BITS_TO_LONGS(nr))
 #define BITBIT_SIZE(nr)	(BITBIT_NR(nr) * sizeof(long))
 
+#define fdt_words(fdt) ((fdt)->max_fds / BITS_PER_LONG) // words in ->open_fds
 /*
  * Copy 'count' fd bits from the old table to the new table and clear the extra
  * space if any.  This does not copy the file pointers.  Called with the files
  * spinlock held for write.
  */
-static void copy_fd_bitmaps(struct fdtable *nfdt, struct fdtable *ofdt,
-			    unsigned int count)
+static inline void copy_fd_bitmaps(struct fdtable *nfdt, struct fdtable *ofdt,
+			    unsigned int copy_words)
 {
-	unsigned int cpy, set;
+	unsigned int nwords = fdt_words(nfdt);
 
-	cpy = count / BITS_PER_BYTE;
-	set = (nfdt->max_fds - count) / BITS_PER_BYTE;
-	memcpy(nfdt->open_fds, ofdt->open_fds, cpy);
-	memset((char *)nfdt->open_fds + cpy, 0, set);
-	memcpy(nfdt->close_on_exec, ofdt->close_on_exec, cpy);
-	memset((char *)nfdt->close_on_exec + cpy, 0, set);
-
-	cpy = BITBIT_SIZE(count);
-	set = BITBIT_SIZE(nfdt->max_fds) - cpy;
-	memcpy(nfdt->full_fds_bits, ofdt->full_fds_bits, cpy);
-	memset((char *)nfdt->full_fds_bits + cpy, 0, set);
+	bitmap_copy_and_extend(nfdt->open_fds, ofdt->open_fds,
+			copy_words * BITS_PER_LONG, nwords * BITS_PER_LONG);
+	bitmap_copy_and_extend(nfdt->close_on_exec, ofdt->close_on_exec,
+			copy_words * BITS_PER_LONG, nwords * BITS_PER_LONG);
+	bitmap_copy_and_extend(nfdt->full_fds_bits, ofdt->full_fds_bits,
+			copy_words, nwords);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -84,7 +80,7 @@ static void copy_fdtable(struct fdtable *nfdt, struct fdtable *ofdt)
 	memcpy(nfdt->fd, ofdt->fd, cpy);
 	memset((char *)nfdt->fd + cpy, 0, set);
 
-	copy_fd_bitmaps(nfdt, ofdt, ofdt->max_fds);
+	copy_fd_bitmaps(nfdt, ofdt, fdt_words(ofdt));
 }
 
 /*
@@ -374,7 +370,7 @@ struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *oldf, unsigned int max_fds, int
 		open_files = sane_fdtable_size(old_fdt, max_fds);
 	}
 
-	copy_fd_bitmaps(new_fdt, old_fdt, open_files);
+	copy_fd_bitmaps(new_fdt, old_fdt, open_files / BITS_PER_LONG);
 
 	old_fds = old_fdt->fd;
 	new_fds = new_fdt->fd;
diff --git a/include/linux/bitmap.h b/include/linux/bitmap.h
index 63e422f..3c8d2b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitmap.h
@@ -281,6 +281,18 @@ static inline void bitmap_copy_clear_tail(unsigned long *dst,
 		dst[nbits / BITS_PER_LONG] &= BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(nbits);
 }
 
+static inline void bitmap_copy_and_extend(unsigned long *to,
+					  const unsigned long *from,
+					  unsigned int count, unsigned int size)
+{
+	unsigned int copy = BITS_TO_LONGS(count);
+
+	memcpy(to, from, copy * sizeof(long));
+	if (count % BITS_PER_LONG)
+		to[copy - 1] &= BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(count);
+	memset(to + copy, 0, bitmap_size(size) - copy * sizeof(long));
+}
+
 /*
  * On 32-bit systems bitmaps are represented as u32 arrays internally. On LE64
  * machines the order of hi and lo parts of numbers match the bitmap structure.
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/core/close_range_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/core/close_range_test.c
index 7492399..190c57b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/core/close_range_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/core/close_range_test.c
@@ -563,4 +563,39 @@ TEST(close_range_cloexec_unshare_syzbot)
 	EXPECT_EQ(close(fd3), 0);
 }
 
+TEST(close_range_bitmap_corruption)
+{
+	pid_t pid;
+	int status;
+	struct __clone_args args = {
+		.flags = CLONE_FILES,
+		.exit_signal = SIGCHLD,
+	};
+
+	/* get the first 128 descriptors open */
+	for (int i = 2; i < 128; i++)
+		EXPECT_GE(dup2(0, i), 0);
+
+	/* get descriptor table shared */
+	pid = sys_clone3(&args, sizeof(args));
+	ASSERT_GE(pid, 0);
+
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		/* unshare and truncate descriptor table down to 64 */
+		if (sys_close_range(64, ~0U, CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE))
+			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+
+		ASSERT_EQ(fcntl(64, F_GETFD), -1);
+		/* ... and verify that the range 64..127 is not
+		   stuck "fully used" according to secondary bitmap */
+		EXPECT_EQ(dup(0), 64)
+			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+		exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+	}
+
+	EXPECT_EQ(waitpid(pid, &status, 0), pid);
+	EXPECT_EQ(true, WIFEXITED(status));
+	EXPECT_EQ(0, WEXITSTATUS(status));
+}
+
 TEST_HARNESS_MAIN