diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h
index a0bf310da74b..1716b3d02489 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h
@@ -7,12 +7,28 @@
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
+#include <linux/page-flags.h>
+
+#include <asm/pgtable-types.h>
+
+void mte_clear_page_tags(void *addr);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MTE
 
+/* track which pages have valid allocation tags */
+#define PG_mte_tagged	PG_arch_2
+
+void mte_sync_tags(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte);
 void flush_mte_state(void);
 
 #else
 
+/* unused if !CONFIG_ARM64_MTE, silence the compiler */
+#define PG_mte_tagged	0
+
+static inline void mte_sync_tags(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+{
+}
 static inline void flush_mte_state(void)
 {
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 758e2d1577d0..f9401a3205a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <asm/proc-fns.h>
 
 #include <asm/memory.h>
+#include <asm/mte.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable-hwdef.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable-prot.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -80,6 +81,8 @@ extern unsigned long empty_zero_page[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long)];
 #define pte_user_exec(pte)	(!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_UXN))
 #define pte_cont(pte)		(!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_CONT))
 #define pte_devmap(pte)		(!!(pte_val(pte) & PTE_DEVMAP))
+#define pte_tagged(pte)		((pte_val(pte) & PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK) == \
+				 PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_TAGGED))
 
 #define pte_cont_addr_end(addr, end)						\
 ({	unsigned long __boundary = ((addr) + CONT_PTE_SIZE) & CONT_PTE_MASK;	\
@@ -274,6 +277,10 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 	if (pte_present(pte) && pte_user_exec(pte) && !pte_special(pte))
 		__sync_icache_dcache(pte);
 
+	if (system_supports_mte() &&
+	    pte_present(pte) && pte_tagged(pte) && !pte_special(pte))
+		mte_sync_tags(ptep, pte);
+
 	__check_racy_pte_update(mm, ptep, pte);
 
 	set_pte(ptep, pte);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 790b0e1da136..c1df72bfede4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 #include <asm/cpu_ops.h>
 #include <asm/fpsimd.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
+#include <asm/mte.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/sysreg.h>
 #include <asm/traps.h>
@@ -1690,6 +1691,12 @@ static int __init system_enable_mte(void)
 	/* Ensure the TLB does not have stale MAIR attributes */
 	flush_tlb_all();
 
+	/*
+	 * Clear the tags in the zero page. This needs to be done via the
+	 * linear map which has the Tagged attribute.
+	 */
+	mte_clear_page_tags(lm_alias(empty_zero_page));
+
 	return 0;
 }
 core_initcall(system_enable_mte);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
index 032016823957..5bf9bbed5a25 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
@@ -3,12 +3,26 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2020 ARM Ltd.
  */
 
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/thread_info.h>
 
 #include <asm/cpufeature.h>
 #include <asm/mte.h>
 #include <asm/sysreg.h>
 
+void mte_sync_tags(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+{
+	struct page *page = pte_page(pte);
+	long i, nr_pages = compound_nr(page);
+
+	/* if PG_mte_tagged is set, tags have already been initialised */
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++, page++) {
+		if (!test_and_set_bit(PG_mte_tagged, &page->flags))
+			mte_clear_page_tags(page_address(page));
+	}
+}
+
 void flush_mte_state(void)
 {
 	if (!system_supports_mte())
diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile b/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile
index 2fc253466dbf..d31e1169d9b8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/Makefile
@@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE) += uaccess_flushcache.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CRC32) += crc32.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_ERROR_INJECTION) += error-inject.o
+
+obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64_MTE) += mte.o
diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/mte.S b/arch/arm64/lib/mte.S
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a36705640086
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/mte.S
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 ARM Ltd.
+ */
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+
+#include <asm/assembler.h>
+#include <asm/sysreg.h>
+
+	.arch	armv8.5-a+memtag
+
+/*
+ * multitag_transfer_size - set \reg to the block size that is accessed by the
+ * LDGM/STGM instructions.
+ */
+	.macro	multitag_transfer_size, reg, tmp
+	mrs_s	\reg, SYS_GMID_EL1
+	ubfx	\reg, \reg, #SYS_GMID_EL1_BS_SHIFT, #SYS_GMID_EL1_BS_SIZE
+	mov	\tmp, #4
+	lsl	\reg, \tmp, \reg
+	.endm
+
+/*
+ * Clear the tags in a page
+ *   x0 - address of the page to be cleared
+ */
+SYM_FUNC_START(mte_clear_page_tags)
+	multitag_transfer_size x1, x2
+1:	stgm	xzr, [x0]
+	add	x0, x0, x1
+	tst	x0, #(PAGE_SIZE - 1)
+	b.ne	1b
+	ret
+SYM_FUNC_END(mte_clear_page_tags)
