diff --git a/target/arm/tcg/translate-sve.c b/target/arm/tcg/translate-sve.c
index dd0c633897eb459b6d297f46e1cafb6748c23d5e..1d8e0d29bfc6b2681066573c32bed9f968a4a52a 100644
--- a/target/arm/tcg/translate-sve.c
+++ b/target/arm/tcg/translate-sve.c
@@ -4459,11 +4459,7 @@ static void do_mem_zpa(DisasContext *s, int zt, int pg, TCGv_i64 addr,
     TCGv_ptr t_pg;
     int desc = 0;
 
-    /*
-     * For e.g. LD4, there are not enough arguments to pass all 4
-     * registers as pointers, so encode the regno into the data field.
-     * For consistency, do this even for LD1.
-     */
+    assert(mte_n >= 1 && mte_n <= 4);
     if (s->mte_active[0]) {
         int msz = dtype_msz(dtype);
 
@@ -4477,6 +4473,11 @@ static void do_mem_zpa(DisasContext *s, int zt, int pg, TCGv_i64 addr,
         addr = clean_data_tbi(s, addr);
     }
 
+    /*
+     * For e.g. LD4, there are not enough arguments to pass all 4
+     * registers as pointers, so encode the regno into the data field.
+     * For consistency, do this even for LD1.
+     */
     desc = simd_desc(vsz, vsz, zt | desc);
     t_pg = tcg_temp_new_ptr();
 
@@ -4614,7 +4615,7 @@ static void do_ld_zpa(DisasContext *s, int zt, int pg,
      * accessible via the instruction encoding.
      */
     assert(fn != NULL);
-    do_mem_zpa(s, zt, pg, addr, dtype, nreg, false, fn);
+    do_mem_zpa(s, zt, pg, addr, dtype, nreg + 1, false, fn);
 }
 
 static bool trans_LD_zprr(DisasContext *s, arg_rprr_load *a)
@@ -5182,14 +5183,13 @@ static void do_st_zpa(DisasContext *s, int zt, int pg, TCGv_i64 addr,
     if (nreg == 0) {
         /* ST1 */
         fn = fn_single[s->mte_active[0]][be][msz][esz];
-        nreg = 1;
     } else {
         /* ST2, ST3, ST4 -- msz == esz, enforced by encoding */
         assert(msz == esz);
         fn = fn_multiple[s->mte_active[0]][be][nreg - 1][msz];
     }
     assert(fn != NULL);
-    do_mem_zpa(s, zt, pg, addr, msz_dtype(s, msz), nreg, true, fn);
+    do_mem_zpa(s, zt, pg, addr, msz_dtype(s, msz), nreg + 1, true, fn);
 }
 
 static bool trans_ST_zprr(DisasContext *s, arg_rprr_store *a)