diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
index c1e4bdd66131..b4c5baf4af45 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.c
@@ -110,9 +110,12 @@ unsigned long vgic_mmio_read_pending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	/* Loop over all IRQs affected by this read */
 	for (i = 0; i < len * 8; i++) {
 		struct vgic_irq *irq = vgic_get_irq(vcpu->kvm, vcpu, intid + i);
+		unsigned long flags;
 
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&irq->irq_lock, flags);
 		if (irq_is_pending(irq))
 			value |= (1U << i);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&irq->irq_lock, flags);
 
 		vgic_put_irq(vcpu->kvm, irq);
 	}
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h
index f7450dc41ab3..21a2240164f3 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.h
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
 /* we only support 64 kB translation table page size */
 #define KVM_ITS_L1E_ADDR_MASK		GENMASK_ULL(51, 16)
 
+/* Requires the irq_lock to be held by the caller. */
 static inline bool irq_is_pending(struct vgic_irq *irq)
 {
 	if (irq->config == VGIC_CONFIG_EDGE)