diff --git a/target-arm/helper.c b/target-arm/helper.c
index e0f3bb81db..c5b032fbfc 100644
--- a/target-arm/helper.c
+++ b/target-arm/helper.c
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ static void vbar_write(CPUARMState *env, const ARMCPRegInfo *ri,
      * contexts. (ARMv8 would permit us to do no masking at all, but ARMv7
      * requires the bottom five bits to be RAZ/WI because they're UNK/SBZP.)
      */
-    env->cp15.vbar_el[1] = value & ~0x1FULL;
+    raw_write(env, ri, value & ~0x1FULL);
 }
 
 static uint64_t ccsidr_read(CPUARMState *env, const ARMCPRegInfo *ri)