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.

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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:
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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
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