diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
index 005daa0c9dd78d..ee3682b9873c44 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
@@ -408,11 +408,42 @@ void __vgic_v3_init_lrs(void)
 /*
  * Return the GIC CPU configuration:
  * - [31:0]  ICH_VTR_EL2
- * - [63:32] RES0
+ * - [62:32] RES0
+ * - [63]    MMIO (GICv2) capable
  */
 u64 __vgic_v3_get_gic_config(void)
 {
-	return read_gicreg(ICH_VTR_EL2);
+	u64 val, sre = read_gicreg(ICC_SRE_EL1);
+	unsigned long flags = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * To check whether we have a MMIO-based (GICv2 compatible)
+	 * CPU interface, we need to disable the system register
+	 * view. To do that safely, we have to prevent any interrupt
+	 * from firing (which would be deadly).
+	 *
+	 * Note that this only makes sense on VHE, as interrupts are
+	 * already masked for nVHE as part of the exception entry to
+	 * EL2.
+	 */
+	if (has_vhe())
+		flags = local_daif_save();
+
+	write_gicreg(0, ICC_SRE_EL1);
+	isb();
+
+	val = read_gicreg(ICC_SRE_EL1);
+
+	write_gicreg(sre, ICC_SRE_EL1);
+	isb();
+
+	if (has_vhe())
+		local_daif_restore(flags);
+
+	val  = (val & ICC_SRE_EL1_SRE) ? 0 : (1ULL << 63);
+	val |= read_gicreg(ICH_VTR_EL2);
+
+	return val;
 }
 
 u64 __vgic_v3_read_vmcr(void)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
index c3e6c3fd333b52..6f530925a23144 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-v3.c
@@ -575,8 +575,10 @@ early_param("kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable", early_gicv4_enable);
 int vgic_v3_probe(const struct gic_kvm_info *info)
 {
 	u64 ich_vtr_el2 = kvm_call_hyp_ret(__vgic_v3_get_gic_config);
+	bool has_v2;
 	int ret;
 
+	has_v2 = ich_vtr_el2 >> 63;
 	ich_vtr_el2 = (u32)ich_vtr_el2;
 
 	/*
@@ -596,13 +598,15 @@ int vgic_v3_probe(const struct gic_kvm_info *info)
 			 gicv4_enable ? "en" : "dis");
 	}
 
+	kvm_vgic_global_state.vcpu_base = 0;
+
 	if (!info->vcpu.start) {
 		kvm_info("GICv3: no GICV resource entry\n");
-		kvm_vgic_global_state.vcpu_base = 0;
+	} else if (!has_v2) {
+		pr_warn(FW_BUG "CPU interface incapable of MMIO access\n");
 	} else if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(info->vcpu.start)) {
 		pr_warn("GICV physical address 0x%llx not page aligned\n",
 			(unsigned long long)info->vcpu.start);
-		kvm_vgic_global_state.vcpu_base = 0;
 	} else {
 		kvm_vgic_global_state.vcpu_base = info->vcpu.start;
 		kvm_vgic_global_state.can_emulate_gicv2 = true;