diff --git a/io_uring/io_uring.c b/io_uring/io_uring.c
index ec98a0ec6f34..8bb8c099c3e1 100644
--- a/io_uring/io_uring.c
+++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c
@@ -110,11 +110,13 @@
 #define SQE_VALID_FLAGS	(SQE_COMMON_FLAGS | IOSQE_BUFFER_SELECT | \
 			IOSQE_IO_DRAIN | IOSQE_CQE_SKIP_SUCCESS)
 
+#define IO_REQ_LINK_FLAGS (REQ_F_LINK | REQ_F_HARDLINK)
+
 #define IO_REQ_CLEAN_FLAGS (REQ_F_BUFFER_SELECTED | REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP | \
 				REQ_F_POLLED | REQ_F_INFLIGHT | REQ_F_CREDS | \
 				REQ_F_ASYNC_DATA)
 
-#define IO_REQ_CLEAN_SLOW_FLAGS (REQ_F_REFCOUNT | REQ_F_LINK | REQ_F_HARDLINK |\
+#define IO_REQ_CLEAN_SLOW_FLAGS (REQ_F_REFCOUNT | IO_REQ_LINK_FLAGS | \
 				 REQ_F_REISSUE | IO_REQ_CLEAN_FLAGS)
 
 #define IO_TCTX_REFS_CACHE_NR	(1U << 10)
@@ -131,7 +133,6 @@ struct io_defer_entry {
 
 /* requests with any of those set should undergo io_disarm_next() */
 #define IO_DISARM_MASK (REQ_F_ARM_LTIMEOUT | REQ_F_LINK_TIMEOUT | REQ_F_FAIL)
-#define IO_REQ_LINK_FLAGS (REQ_F_LINK | REQ_F_HARDLINK)
 
 /*
  * No waiters. It's larger than any valid value of the tw counter
@@ -1157,7 +1158,7 @@ static inline void io_req_local_work_add(struct io_kiocb *req,
 	 * We don't know how many reuqests is there in the link and whether
 	 * they can even be queued lazily, fall back to non-lazy.
 	 */
-	if (req->flags & (REQ_F_LINK | REQ_F_HARDLINK))
+	if (req->flags & IO_REQ_LINK_FLAGS)
 		flags &= ~IOU_F_TWQ_LAZY_WAKE;
 
 	guard(rcu)();