diff --git a/tokio/src/fs/read_dir.rs b/tokio/src/fs/read_dir.rs
index 9a0334306..9372e8caf 100644
--- a/tokio/src/fs/read_dir.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/fs/read_dir.rs
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ enum State {
 
 impl ReadDir {
     /// Returns the next entry in the directory stream.
+    ///
+    /// # Cancel safety
+    ///
+    /// This method is cancellation safe.
     pub async fn next_entry(&mut self) -> io::Result<Option<DirEntry>> {
         use crate::future::poll_fn;
         poll_fn(|cx| self.poll_next_entry(cx)).await
diff --git a/tokio/src/io/util/async_buf_read_ext.rs b/tokio/src/io/util/async_buf_read_ext.rs
index e4ac79dd8..b6a99303d 100644
--- a/tokio/src/io/util/async_buf_read_ext.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/io/util/async_buf_read_ext.rs
@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@ cfg_io_util! {
         /// [`fill_buf`]: AsyncBufRead::poll_fill_buf
         /// [`ErrorKind::Interrupted`]: std::io::ErrorKind::Interrupted
         ///
+        /// # Cancel safety
+        ///
+        /// If the method is used as the event in a
+        /// [`tokio::select!`](crate::select) statement and some other branch
+        /// completes first, then some data may have been partially read. Any
+        /// partially read bytes are appended to `buf`, and the method can be
+        /// called again to continue reading until `byte`.
+        ///
+        /// This method returns the total number of bytes read. If you cancel
+        /// the call to `read_until` and then call it again to continue reading,
+        /// the counter is reset.
+        ///
         /// # Examples
         ///
         /// [`std::io::Cursor`][`Cursor`] is a type that implements `BufRead`. In
@@ -114,6 +126,30 @@ cfg_io_util! {
         ///
         /// [`read_until`]: AsyncBufReadExt::read_until
         ///
+        /// # Cancel safety
+        ///
+        /// This method is not cancellation safe. If the method is used as the
+        /// event in a [`tokio::select!`](crate::select) statement and some
+        /// other branch completes first, then some data may have been partially
+        /// read, and this data is lost. There are no guarantees regarding the
+        /// contents of `buf` when the call is cancelled. The current
+        /// implementation replaces `buf` with the empty string, but this may
+        /// change in the future.
+        ///
+        /// This function does not behave like [`read_until`] because of the
+        /// requirement that a string contains only valid utf-8. If you need a
+        /// cancellation safe `read_line`, there are three options:
+        ///
+        ///  * Call [`read_until`] with a newline character and manually perform the utf-8 check.
+        ///  * The stream returned by [`lines`] has a cancellation safe
+        ///    [`next_line`] method.
+        ///  * Use [`tokio_util::codec::LinesCodec`][LinesCodec].
+        ///
+        /// [LinesCodec]: https://docs.rs/tokio-util/0.6/tokio_util/codec/struct.LinesCodec.html
+        /// [`read_until`]: Self::read_until
+        /// [`lines`]: Self::lines
+        /// [`next_line`]: crate::io::Lines::next_line
+        ///
         /// # Examples
         ///
         /// [`std::io::Cursor`][`Cursor`] is a type that implements
diff --git a/tokio/src/io/util/lines.rs b/tokio/src/io/util/lines.rs
index d02a4538a..3fbf5e3a3 100644
--- a/tokio/src/io/util/lines.rs
+++ b/tokio/src/io/util/lines.rs
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ where
 {
     /// Returns the next line in the stream.
     ///
+    /// # Cancel safety
+    ///
+    /// This method is cancellation safe.
+    ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
     /// ```
@@ -102,11 +106,9 @@ where
     ///
     /// When the method returns `Poll::Pending`, the `Waker` in the provided
     /// `Context` is scheduled to receive a wakeup when more bytes become
-    /// available on the underlying IO resource.
-    ///
-    /// Note that on multiple calls to `poll_next_line`, only the `Waker` from
-    /// the `Context` passed to the most recent call is scheduled to receive a
-    /// wakeup.
+    /// available on the underlying IO resource.  Note that on multiple calls to
+    /// `poll_next_line`, only the `Waker` from the `Context` passed to the most
+    /// recent call is scheduled to receive a wakeup.
     pub fn poll_next_line(
         self: Pin<&mut Self>,
         cx: &mut Context<'_>,