diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
index 5cc0b0f5f72f..3f688b458143 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
@@ -78,17 +78,6 @@ static inline void kvm_set_pte(pte_t *pte, pte_t new_pte)
 	flush_pmd_entry(pte);
 }
 
-static inline bool kvm_is_write_fault(unsigned long hsr)
-{
-	unsigned long hsr_ec = hsr >> HSR_EC_SHIFT;
-	if (hsr_ec == HSR_EC_IABT)
-		return false;
-	else if ((hsr & HSR_ISV) && !(hsr & HSR_WNR))
-		return false;
-	else
-		return true;
-}
-
 static inline void kvm_clean_pgd(pgd_t *pgd)
 {
 	clean_dcache_area(pgd, PTRS_PER_S2_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t));
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index 62f5642153f9..bb06f76a8f89 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -746,6 +746,14 @@ static bool transparent_hugepage_adjust(pfn_t *pfnp, phys_addr_t *ipap)
 	return false;
 }
 
+static bool kvm_is_write_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	if (kvm_vcpu_trap_is_iabt(vcpu))
+		return false;
+
+	return kvm_vcpu_dabt_iswrite(vcpu);
+}
+
 static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 			  struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, unsigned long hva,
 			  unsigned long fault_status)
@@ -760,7 +768,7 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 	pfn_t pfn;
 	pgprot_t mem_type = PAGE_S2;
 
-	write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu));
+	write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(vcpu);
 	if (fault_status == FSC_PERM && !write_fault) {
 		kvm_err("Unexpected L2 read permission error\n");
 		return -EFAULT;
@@ -886,7 +894,7 @@ int kvm_handle_guest_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
 	gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	memslot = gfn_to_memslot(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
 	hva = gfn_to_hva_memslot_prot(memslot, gfn, &writable);
-	write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu));
+	write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(vcpu);
 	if (kvm_is_error_hva(hva) || (write_fault && !writable)) {
 		if (is_iabt) {
 			/* Prefetch Abort on I/O address */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
index 8e138c7c53ac..737da742b293 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
@@ -93,19 +93,6 @@ void kvm_clear_hyp_idmap(void);
 #define	kvm_set_pte(ptep, pte)		set_pte(ptep, pte)
 #define	kvm_set_pmd(pmdp, pmd)		set_pmd(pmdp, pmd)
 
-static inline bool kvm_is_write_fault(unsigned long esr)
-{
-	unsigned long esr_ec = esr >> ESR_EL2_EC_SHIFT;
-
-	if (esr_ec == ESR_EL2_EC_IABT)
-		return false;
-
-	if ((esr & ESR_EL2_ISV) && !(esr & ESR_EL2_WNR))
-		return false;
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 static inline void kvm_clean_pgd(pgd_t *pgd) {}
 static inline void kvm_clean_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd) {}
 static inline void kvm_clean_pte(pte_t *pte) {}