CVE-2026-64416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: swap_cgroup: fix NULL deref in lookup_swap_cgroup_id on swapless host
lookup_swap_cgroup_id() passes swap_cgroup_ctrl[type].map to
__swap_cgroup_id_lookup() without checking that the type was ever
registered via swap_cgroup_swapon(). On a swapless host every ctrl->map
is NULL, so __swap_cgroup_id_lookup() dereferences NULL + a scaled
swp_offset().
Since commit bea67dcc5eea ("mm: attempt to batch free swap entries for
zap_pte_range()"), zap_pte_range() -> swap_pte_batch() calls
lookup_swap_cgroup_id() on any non-present, non-none PTE that decodes as a
real swap entry, without first validating it against swap_info[]. A
single PTE corrupted into a type-0 swap entry takes the host down at
process exit.
We hit this in production on a swapless 6.12.58 host: ~1s of
"get_swap_device: Bad swap file entry 3f800204222bb" (do_swap_page() being
correctly defensive about the same entry) followed by
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000003f800204220
RIP: 0010:lookup_swap_cgroup_id+0x2b/0x60
Call Trace:
swap_pte_batch+0xbf/0x230
zap_pte_range+0x4c8/0x780
unmap_page_range+0x190/0x3e0
exit_mmap+0xd9/0x3c0
do_exit+0x20c/0x4b0
syzbot has reported the identical stack.
The source of the PTE corruption is a separate bug; this change makes the
teardown path as robust as the fault path already is. Every other caller
of lookup_swap_cgroup_id() is downstream of a get_swap_device() that has
already validated the entry, so the new branch is cold.
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Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | — | bea67dcc5eea0f6a213897a59b9e644977cd07e6 < 818416fef38759f23210de449663cd9d7e293d39, bea67dcc5eea0f6a213897a59b9e644977cd07e6 < b415c00bf23df577a4a95673d00ae76687bcc1d4, bea67dcc5eea0f6a213897a59b9e644977cd07e6 < 6a4196d19f477524d2f92adca90fc1fbe9a0420a, bea67dcc5eea0f6a213897a59b9e644977cd07e6 < 63b02a9409cb5180398491b093e48bcb5315f5fb |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.12, 0 < 6.12, 6.12.97 ≤ 6.12.*, 6.18.39 ≤ 6.18.* … |
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