diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index f22d83c178..9e3d8b1401 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2618,6 +2618,7 @@ R: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
 S: Maintained
 F: tests/qtest/fuzz/
 F: scripts/oss-fuzz/
+F: hw/mem/sparse-mem.c
 F: docs/devel/fuzzing.rst
 
 Register API
diff --git a/hw/mem/meson.build b/hw/mem/meson.build
index 0d22f2b572..ef79e04678 100644
--- a/hw/mem/meson.build
+++ b/hw/mem/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 mem_ss = ss.source_set()
 mem_ss.add(files('memory-device.c'))
+mem_ss.add(when: 'CONFIG_FUZZ', if_true: files('sparse-mem.c'))
 mem_ss.add(when: 'CONFIG_DIMM', if_true: files('pc-dimm.c'))
 mem_ss.add(when: 'CONFIG_NPCM7XX', if_true: files('npcm7xx_mc.c'))
 mem_ss.add(when: 'CONFIG_NVDIMM', if_true: files('nvdimm.c'))
diff --git a/hw/mem/sparse-mem.c b/hw/mem/sparse-mem.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..575a287f59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/mem/sparse-mem.c
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+/*
+ * A sparse memory device. Useful for fuzzing
+ *
+ * Copyright Red Hat Inc., 2021
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Alexander Bulekov   <alxndr@bu.edu>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#include "qemu/osdep.h"
+
+#include "exec/address-spaces.h"
+#include "hw/qdev-properties.h"
+#include "hw/sysbus.h"
+#include "qapi/error.h"
+#include "qemu/units.h"
+#include "sysemu/qtest.h"
+#include "hw/mem/sparse-mem.h"
+
+#define SPARSE_MEM(obj) OBJECT_CHECK(SparseMemState, (obj), TYPE_SPARSE_MEM)
+#define SPARSE_BLOCK_SIZE 0x1000
+
+typedef struct SparseMemState {
+    SysBusDevice parent_obj;
+    MemoryRegion mmio;
+    uint64_t baseaddr;
+    uint64_t length;
+    uint64_t size_used;
+    uint64_t maxsize;
+    GHashTable *mapped;
+} SparseMemState;
+
+typedef struct sparse_mem_block {
+    uint8_t data[SPARSE_BLOCK_SIZE];
+} sparse_mem_block;
+
+static uint64_t sparse_mem_read(void *opaque, hwaddr addr, unsigned int size)
+{
+    printf("SPARSEREAD %lx\n", addr);
+    SparseMemState *s = opaque;
+    uint64_t ret = 0;
+    size_t pfn = addr / SPARSE_BLOCK_SIZE;
+    size_t offset = addr % SPARSE_BLOCK_SIZE;
+    sparse_mem_block *block;
+
+    block = g_hash_table_lookup(s->mapped, (void *)pfn);
+    if (block) {
+        assert(offset + size <= sizeof(block->data));
+        memcpy(&ret, block->data + offset, size);
+    }
+    return ret;
+}
+
+static void sparse_mem_write(void *opaque, hwaddr addr, uint64_t v,
+                             unsigned int size)
+{
+    SparseMemState *s = opaque;
+    size_t pfn = addr / SPARSE_BLOCK_SIZE;
+    size_t offset = addr % SPARSE_BLOCK_SIZE;
+    sparse_mem_block *block;
+
+    if (!g_hash_table_lookup(s->mapped, (void *)pfn) &&
+        s->size_used + SPARSE_BLOCK_SIZE < s->maxsize && v) {
+        g_hash_table_insert(s->mapped, (void *)pfn,
+                            g_new0(sparse_mem_block, 1));
+        s->size_used += sizeof(block->data);
+    }
+    block = g_hash_table_lookup(s->mapped, (void *)pfn);
+    if (!block) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    assert(offset + size <= sizeof(block->data));
+
+    memcpy(block->data + offset, &v, size);
+
+}
+
+static const MemoryRegionOps sparse_mem_ops = {
+    .read = sparse_mem_read,
+    .write = sparse_mem_write,
+    .endianness = DEVICE_LITTLE_ENDIAN,
+    .valid = {
+            .min_access_size = 1,
+            .max_access_size = 8,
+            .unaligned = false,
+        },
+};
+
+static Property sparse_mem_properties[] = {
+    /* The base address of the memory */
+    DEFINE_PROP_UINT64("baseaddr", SparseMemState, baseaddr, 0x0),
+    /* The length of the sparse memory region */
+    DEFINE_PROP_UINT64("length", SparseMemState, length, UINT64_MAX),
+    /* Max amount of actual memory that can be used to back the sparse memory */
+    DEFINE_PROP_UINT64("maxsize", SparseMemState, maxsize, 10 * MiB),
+    DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
+};
+
+MemoryRegion *sparse_mem_init(uint64_t addr, uint64_t length)
+{
+    DeviceState *dev;
+
+    dev = qdev_new(TYPE_SPARSE_MEM);
+    qdev_prop_set_uint64(dev, "baseaddr", addr);
+    qdev_prop_set_uint64(dev, "length", length);
+    sysbus_realize_and_unref(SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev), &error_fatal);
+    sysbus_mmio_map_overlap(SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev), 0, addr, -10000);
+    return &SPARSE_MEM(dev)->mmio;
+}
+
+static void sparse_mem_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
+{
+    SparseMemState *s = SPARSE_MEM(dev);
+    SysBusDevice *sbd = SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev);
+
+    if (!qtest_enabled()) {
+        error_setg(errp, "sparse_mem device should only be used "
+                         "for testing with QTest");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    assert(s->baseaddr + s->length > s->baseaddr);
+
+    s->mapped = g_hash_table_new(NULL, NULL);
+    memory_region_init_io(&s->mmio, OBJECT(s), &sparse_mem_ops, s,
+                          "sparse-mem", s->length);
+    sysbus_init_mmio(sbd, &s->mmio);
+}
+
+static void sparse_mem_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
+{
+    DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_CLASS(klass);
+
+    device_class_set_props(dc, sparse_mem_properties);
+
+    dc->desc = "Sparse Memory Device";
+    dc->realize = sparse_mem_realize;
+}
+
+static const TypeInfo sparse_mem_types[] = {
+    {
+        .name = TYPE_SPARSE_MEM,
+        .parent = TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE,
+        .instance_size = sizeof(SparseMemState),
+        .class_init = sparse_mem_class_init,
+    },
+};
+DEFINE_TYPES(sparse_mem_types);
diff --git a/include/hw/mem/sparse-mem.h b/include/hw/mem/sparse-mem.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f9863b154b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/hw/mem/sparse-mem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+ * A sparse memory device. Useful for fuzzing
+ *
+ * Copyright Red Hat Inc., 2021
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Alexander Bulekov   <alxndr@bu.edu>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#ifndef SPARSE_MEM_H
+#define SPARSE_MEM_H
+#define TYPE_SPARSE_MEM "sparse-mem"
+
+MemoryRegion *sparse_mem_init(uint64_t addr, uint64_t length);
+
+#endif
