diff --git a/target/arm/internals.h b/target/arm/internals.h
index 642f77df29b..1dd9182a54a 100644
--- a/target/arm/internals.h
+++ b/target/arm/internals.h
@@ -1288,6 +1288,23 @@ uint64_t mte_check(CPUARMState *env, uint32_t desc, uint64_t ptr, uintptr_t ra);
 uint64_t mte_mops_probe(CPUARMState *env, uint64_t ptr, uint64_t size,
                         uint32_t desc);
 
+/**
+ * mte_mops_probe_rev: Check where the next MTE failure is for a FEAT_MOPS
+ *                     operation going in the reverse direction
+ * @env: CPU env
+ * @ptr: *end* address of memory region (dirty pointer)
+ * @size: length of region (guaranteed not to cross a page boundary)
+ * @desc: MTEDESC descriptor word (0 means no MTE checks)
+ * Returns: the size of the region that can be copied without hitting
+ *          an MTE tag failure
+ *
+ * Note that we assume that the caller has already checked the TBI
+ * and TCMA bits with mte_checks_needed() and an MTE check is definitely
+ * required.
+ */
+uint64_t mte_mops_probe_rev(CPUARMState *env, uint64_t ptr, uint64_t size,
+                            uint32_t desc);
+
 /**
  * mte_check_fail: Record an MTE tag check failure
  * @env: CPU env
diff --git a/target/arm/tcg/mte_helper.c b/target/arm/tcg/mte_helper.c
index d934f89bebb..ad53027044e 100644
--- a/target/arm/tcg/mte_helper.c
+++ b/target/arm/tcg/mte_helper.c
@@ -733,6 +733,55 @@ static int checkN(uint8_t *mem, int odd, int cmp, int count)
     return n;
 }
 
+/**
+ * checkNrev:
+ * @tag: tag memory to test
+ * @odd: true to begin testing at tags at odd nibble
+ * @cmp: the tag to compare against
+ * @count: number of tags to test
+ *
+ * Return the number of successful tests.
+ * Thus a return value < @count indicates a failure.
+ *
+ * This is like checkN, but it runs backwards, checking the
+ * tags starting with @tag and then the tags preceding it.
+ * This is needed by the backwards-memory-copying operations.
+ */
+static int checkNrev(uint8_t *mem, int odd, int cmp, int count)
+{
+    int n = 0, diff;
+
+    /* Replicate the test tag and compare.  */
+    cmp *= 0x11;
+    diff = *mem-- ^ cmp;
+
+    if (!odd) {
+        goto start_even;
+    }
+
+    while (1) {
+        /* Test odd tag. */
+        if (unlikely((diff) & 0xf0)) {
+            break;
+        }
+        if (++n == count) {
+            break;
+        }
+
+    start_even:
+        /* Test even tag. */
+        if (unlikely((diff) & 0x0f)) {
+            break;
+        }
+        if (++n == count) {
+            break;
+        }
+
+        diff = *mem-- ^ cmp;
+    }
+    return n;
+}
+
 /**
  * mte_probe_int() - helper for mte_probe and mte_check
  * @env: CPU environment
@@ -1041,6 +1090,56 @@ uint64_t mte_mops_probe(CPUARMState *env, uint64_t ptr, uint64_t size,
     }
 }
 
+uint64_t mte_mops_probe_rev(CPUARMState *env, uint64_t ptr, uint64_t size,
+                            uint32_t desc)
+{
+    int mmu_idx, tag_count;
+    uint64_t ptr_tag, tag_first, tag_last;
+    void *mem;
+    bool w = FIELD_EX32(desc, MTEDESC, WRITE);
+    uint32_t n;
+
+    mmu_idx = FIELD_EX32(desc, MTEDESC, MIDX);
+    /* True probe; this will never fault */
+    mem = allocation_tag_mem_probe(env, mmu_idx, ptr,
+                                   w ? MMU_DATA_STORE : MMU_DATA_LOAD,
+                                   size, MMU_DATA_LOAD, true, 0);
+    if (!mem) {
+        return size;
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * TODO: checkNrev() is not designed for checks of the size we expect
+     * for FEAT_MOPS operations, so we should implement this differently.
+     * Maybe we should do something like
+     *   if (region start and size are aligned nicely) {
+     *      do direct loads of 64 tag bits at a time;
+     *   } else {
+     *      call checkN()
+     *   }
+     */
+    /* Round the bounds to the tag granule, and compute the number of tags. */
+    ptr_tag = allocation_tag_from_addr(ptr);
+    tag_first = QEMU_ALIGN_DOWN(ptr - (size - 1), TAG_GRANULE);
+    tag_last = QEMU_ALIGN_DOWN(ptr, TAG_GRANULE);
+    tag_count = ((tag_last - tag_first) / TAG_GRANULE) + 1;
+    n = checkNrev(mem, ptr & TAG_GRANULE, ptr_tag, tag_count);
+    if (likely(n == tag_count)) {
+        return size;
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * Failure; for the first granule, it's at @ptr. Otherwise
+     * it's at the last byte of the nth granule. Calculate how
+     * many bytes we can access without hitting that failure.
+     */
+    if (n == 0) {
+        return 0;
+    } else {
+        return (n - 1) * TAG_GRANULE + ((ptr + 1) - tag_last);
+    }
+}
+
 void mte_mops_set_tags(CPUARMState *env, uint64_t ptr, uint64_t size,
                        uint32_t desc)
 {
