visorchannel_write(struct visorchannel *channel, ulong offset,
                   void *local, ulong nbytes)
 {
-       size_t size = sizeof(struct channel_header);
+       size_t chdr_size = sizeof(struct channel_header);
+       size_t copy_size;
 
        if (offset + nbytes > channel->memregion.nbytes)
                return -EIO;
 
-       if (!offset && nbytes >= size)
-               memcpy(&channel->chan_hdr, local, size);
+       if (offset < chdr_size) {
+               copy_size = min(chdr_size, nbytes) - offset;
+               memcpy(&channel->chan_hdr + offset, local, copy_size);
+       }
 
        memcpy_toio(channel->memregion.mapped + offset, local, nbytes);