diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 7576df00eb50e8f7109d711846f758369a50eb85..e96fb82f62de92391aff60c41bccf325653fe314 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -885,6 +885,20 @@ static inline void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define phys_to_ttbr(addr)	(addr)
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying from user will fail because
+ * the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed
+ * page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. We don't always have a
+ * hardware-managed access flag on arm64.
+ */
+static inline bool arch_faults_on_old_pte(void)
+{
+	WARN_ON(preemptible());
+
+	return !cpu_has_hw_af();
+}
+#define arch_faults_on_old_pte arch_faults_on_old_pte
+
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASM_PGTABLE_H */