diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
index d10e362..7f66b1b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
@@ -223,6 +223,22 @@
 	return 8;
 }
 
+/*
+ * We are not in the kvm->srcu critical section most of the time, so we take
+ * the SRCU read lock here. Since we copy the data from the user page, we
+ * can immediately drop the lock again.
+ */
+static inline int kvm_read_guest_lock(struct kvm *kvm,
+				      gpa_t gpa, void *data, unsigned long len)
+{
+	int srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
+	int ret = kvm_read_guest(kvm, gpa, data, len);
+
+	srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, srcu_idx);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static inline void *kvm_get_hyp_vector(void)
 {
 	return kvm_ksym_ref(__kvm_hyp_vector);