diff --git a/lib/usercopy.c b/lib/usercopy.c
index 3744b2a..cbb4d9e 100644
--- a/lib/usercopy.c
+++ b/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
 
 /* out-of-line parts */
 
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@
 {
 	unsigned long res = n;
 	might_fault();
-	if (likely(access_ok(VERIFY_READ, from, n))) {
+	if (likely(access_ok(from, n))) {
 		kasan_check_write(to, n);
 		res = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
 	}
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@
 unsigned long _copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
 {
 	might_fault();
-	if (likely(access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, to, n))) {
+	if (likely(access_ok(to, n))) {
 		kasan_check_read(from, n);
 		n = raw_copy_to_user(to, from, n);
 	}
@@ -31,3 +32,57 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_to_user);
 #endif
+
+/**
+ * check_zeroed_user: check if a userspace buffer only contains zero bytes
+ * @from: Source address, in userspace.
+ * @size: Size of buffer.
+ *
+ * This is effectively shorthand for "memchr_inv(from, 0, size) == NULL" for
+ * userspace addresses (and is more efficient because we don't care where the
+ * first non-zero byte is).
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ *  * 0: There were non-zero bytes present in the buffer.
+ *  * 1: The buffer was full of zero bytes.
+ *  * -EFAULT: access to userspace failed.
+ */
+int check_zeroed_user(const void __user *from, size_t size)
+{
+	unsigned long val;
+	uintptr_t align = (uintptr_t) from % sizeof(unsigned long);
+
+	if (unlikely(size == 0))
+		return 1;
+
+	from -= align;
+	size += align;
+
+	if (!user_access_begin(from, size))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
+	unsafe_get_user(val, (unsigned long __user *) from, err_fault);
+	if (align)
+		val &= ~aligned_byte_mask(align);
+
+	while (size > sizeof(unsigned long)) {
+		if (unlikely(val))
+			goto done;
+
+		from += sizeof(unsigned long);
+		size -= sizeof(unsigned long);
+
+		unsafe_get_user(val, (unsigned long __user *) from, err_fault);
+	}
+
+	if (size < sizeof(unsigned long))
+		val &= aligned_byte_mask(size);
+
+done:
+	user_access_end();
+	return (val == 0);
+err_fault:
+	user_access_end();
+	return -EFAULT;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_zeroed_user);