diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 0381e250a7851c5ef1cf78d1d473b4d3dabc51e7..eacc855ae08e7c8df1b460844b9f78a271ac9461 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -301,9 +301,7 @@ static void parse_elf(void *output)
 #else
 			dest = (void *)(phdr->p_paddr);
 #endif
-			memcpy(dest,
-			       output + phdr->p_offset,
-			       phdr->p_filesz);
+			memcpy(dest, output + phdr->p_offset, phdr->p_filesz);
 			break;
 		default: /* Ignore other PT_* */ break;
 		}
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
index 00e788be1db943360830701be69fdcbf41294b49..1e10e40f49dd5b384480938ce458629c7ce550e5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #include "../string.c"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 {
 	int d0, d1, d2;
 	asm volatile(
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 	return dest;
 }
 #else
-void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+void *__memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
 {
 	long d0, d1, d2;
 	asm volatile(
@@ -39,3 +39,21 @@ void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n)
 		ss[i] = c;
 	return s;
 }
+
+/*
+ * This memcpy is overlap safe (i.e. it is memmove without conflicting
+ * with other definitions of memmove from the various decompressors.
+ */
+void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n)
+{
+	unsigned char *d = dest;
+	const unsigned char *s = src;
+
+	if (d <= s || d - s >= n)
+		return __memcpy(dest, src, n);
+
+	while (n-- > 0)
+		d[n] = s[n];
+
+	return dest;
+}