In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: x86: Acquire kvm->srcu when handling KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS

Grab kvm->srcu when processing KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS, as KVM will forcibly
leave nested VMX/SVM if SMM mode is being toggled, and leaving nested VMX
reads guest memory.

Note, kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_vcpu_events() can also be called from KVM_RUN
via sync_regs(), which already holds SRCU.  I.e. trying to precisely use
kvm_vcpu_srcu_read_lock() around the problematic SMM code would cause
problems.  Acquiring SRCU isn't all that expensive, so for simplicity,
grab it unconditionally for KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS.

 =============================
 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
 6.10.0-rc7-332d2c1d713e-next-vm #552 Not tainted
 -----------------------------
 include/linux/kvm_host.h:1027 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

 other info that might help us debug this:

 rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
 1 lock held by repro/1071:
  #0: ffff88811e424430 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x7d/0x970 [kvm]

 stack backtrace:
 CPU: 15 PID: 1071 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.10.0-rc7-332d2c1d713e-next-vm #552
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  dump_stack_lvl+0x7f/0x90
  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x13f/0x1a0
  kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_memslot+0x168/0x190 [kvm]
  kvm_vcpu_read_guest+0x3e/0x90 [kvm]
  nested_vmx_load_msr+0x6b/0x1d0 [kvm_intel]
  load_vmcs12_host_state+0x432/0xb40 [kvm_intel]
  vmx_leave_nested+0x30/0x40 [kvm_intel]
  kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_vcpu_events+0x15d/0x2b0 [kvm]
  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x1107/0x1750 [kvm]
  ? mark_held_locks+0x49/0x70
  ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x7d/0x970 [kvm]
  ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x497/0x970 [kvm]
  kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x497/0x970 [kvm]
  ? lock_acquire+0xba/0x2d0
  ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80
  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x40c/0x6f0
  ? lock_release+0xb7/0x270
  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x82/0xb0
  do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x170
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
 RIP: 0033:0x7ff11eb1b539
  </TASK>

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bcdd831d9d01e0fb64faea50732b59b2ee88da1 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/939375737b5a0b1bf9b1e75129054e11bc9ca65e [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecdbe8ac86fb5538ccc623a41f88ec96c7168ab9 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa297c33faefe51e10244e8a378837fca4963228 [No types assigned]