diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
index 2d067767b617..02501333f746 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
@@ -4453,6 +4453,35 @@ Hyper-V SynIC state change. Notification is used to remap SynIC
 event/message pages and to enable/disable SynIC messages/events processing
 in userspace.
 
+		/* KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV */
+		struct {
+			__u64 esr_iss;
+			__u64 fault_ipa;
+		} arm_nisv;
+
+Used on arm and arm64 systems. If a guest accesses memory not in a memslot,
+KVM will typically return to userspace and ask it to do MMIO emulation on its
+behalf. However, for certain classes of instructions, no instruction decode
+(direction, length of memory access) is provided, and fetching and decoding
+the instruction from the VM is overly complicated to live in the kernel.
+
+Historically, when this situation occurred, KVM would print a warning and kill
+the VM. KVM assumed that if the guest accessed non-memslot memory, it was
+trying to do I/O, which just couldn't be emulated, and the warning message was
+phrased accordingly. However, what happened more often was that a guest bug
+caused access outside the guest memory areas which should lead to a more
+mearningful warning message and an external abort in the guest, if the access
+did not fall within an I/O window.
+
+Userspace implementations can query for KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER, and enable
+this capability at VM creation. Once this is done, these types of errors will
+instead return to userspace with KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV, with the valid bits from
+the HSR (arm) and ESR_EL2 (arm64) in the esr_iss field, and the faulting IPA
+in the fault_ipa field. Userspace can either fix up the access if it's
+actually an I/O access by decoding the instruction from guest memory (if it's
+very brave) and continue executing the guest, or it can decide to suspend,
+dump, or restart the guest.
+
 		/* Fix the size of the union. */
 		char padding[256];
 	};
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_arm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
index 0125aa059d5b..ce61b3b0058d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@
 #define HSR_ISV		(_AC(1, UL) << HSR_ISV_SHIFT)
 #define HSR_SRT_SHIFT	(16)
 #define HSR_SRT_MASK	(0xf << HSR_SRT_SHIFT)
+#define HSR_CM		(1 << 8)
+#define HSR_WNR		(1 << 6)
 #define HSR_FSC		(0x3f)
 #define HSR_FSC_TYPE	(0x3c)
 #define HSR_SSE		(1 << 21)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
index 40002416efec..e8ef349c04b4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
@@ -167,6 +167,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_vcpu_dabt_isvalid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	return kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu) & HSR_ISV;
 }
 
+static inline unsigned long kvm_vcpu_dabt_iss_nisv_sanitized(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	return kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu) & (HSR_CM | HSR_WNR | HSR_FSC);
+}
+
 static inline bool kvm_vcpu_dabt_iswrite(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	return kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu) & HSR_WNR;
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 8a37c8e89777..19a92c49039c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ struct kvm_arch {
 
 	/* Mandated version of PSCI */
 	u32 psci_version;
+
+	/*
+	 * If we encounter a data abort without valid instruction syndrome
+	 * information, report this to user space.  User space can (and
+	 * should) opt in to this feature if KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER is
+	 * supported.
+	 */
+	bool return_nisv_io_abort_to_user;
 };
 
 #define KVM_NR_MEM_OBJS     40
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
index d69c1efc63e7..a3c967988e1d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
@@ -258,6 +258,11 @@ static inline bool kvm_vcpu_dabt_isvalid(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	return !!(kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu) & ESR_ELx_ISV);
 }
 
+static inline unsigned long kvm_vcpu_dabt_iss_nisv_sanitized(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	return kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu) & (ESR_ELx_CM | ESR_ELx_WNR | ESR_ELx_FSC);
+}
+
 static inline bool kvm_vcpu_dabt_issext(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	return !!(kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(vcpu) & ESR_ELx_SSE);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index f656169db8c3..019bc560edc1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ struct kvm_arch {
 
 	/* Mandated version of PSCI */
 	u32 psci_version;
+
+	/*
+	 * If we encounter a data abort without valid instruction syndrome
+	 * information, report this to user space.  User space can (and
+	 * should) opt in to this feature if KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER is
+	 * supported.
+	 */
+	bool return_nisv_io_abort_to_user;
 };
 
 #define KVM_NR_MEM_OBJS     40
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index 5e3f12d5359e..dd79235b6435 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ struct kvm_hyperv_exit {
 #define KVM_EXIT_S390_STSI        25
 #define KVM_EXIT_IOAPIC_EOI       26
 #define KVM_EXIT_HYPERV           27
+#define KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV         28
 
 /* For KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR */
 /* Emulate instruction failed. */
@@ -392,6 +393,11 @@ struct kvm_run {
 		} eoi;
 		/* KVM_EXIT_HYPERV */
 		struct kvm_hyperv_exit hyperv;
+		/* KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV */
+		struct {
+			__u64 esr_iss;
+			__u64 fault_ipa;
+		} arm_nisv;
 		/* Fix the size of the union. */
 		char padding[256];
 	};
@@ -996,6 +1002,7 @@ struct kvm_ppc_resize_hpt {
 #define KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS 171
 #define KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC 172
 #define KVM_CAP_PMU_EVENT_FILTER 173
+#define KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER 174
 
 #ifdef KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING
 
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
index 35a069815baf..7153504bb106 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
@@ -98,6 +98,26 @@ int kvm_arch_check_processor_compat(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap(struct kvm *kvm,
+			    struct kvm_enable_cap *cap)
+{
+	int r;
+
+	if (cap->flags)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	switch (cap->cap) {
+	case KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER:
+		r = 0;
+		kvm->arch.return_nisv_io_abort_to_user = true;
+		break;
+	default:
+		r = -EINVAL;
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return r;
+}
 
 /**
  * kvm_arch_init_vm - initializes a VM data structure
@@ -196,6 +216,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 	case KVM_CAP_MP_STATE:
 	case KVM_CAP_IMMEDIATE_EXIT:
 	case KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS:
+	case KVM_CAP_ARM_NISV_TO_USER:
 		r = 1;
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR:
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmio.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmio.c
index 6af5c91337f2..7b92e2744fa7 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmio.c
@@ -167,8 +167,15 @@ int io_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 	} else {
-		kvm_err("load/store instruction decoding not implemented\n");
-		return -ENOSYS;
+		if (vcpu->kvm->arch.return_nisv_io_abort_to_user) {
+			run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV;
+			run->arm_nisv.esr_iss = kvm_vcpu_dabt_iss_nisv_sanitized(vcpu);
+			run->arm_nisv.fault_ipa = fault_ipa;
+			return 0;
+		} else {
+			kvm_info("Encountered data abort outside memslots with no valid syndrome info\n");
+			return -ENOSYS;
+		}
 	}
 
 	rt = vcpu->arch.mmio_decode.rt;
