diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 42ac45c3e5..1776d0950b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3257,6 +3257,7 @@ Linux io_uring
 M: Aarushi Mehta <mehta.aaru20@gmail.com>
 M: Julia Suvorova <jusual@redhat.com>
 M: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
+R: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
 L: qemu-block@nongnu.org
 S: Maintained
 F: block/io_uring.c