[PATCH] mm: swap_cgroup: fix NULL deref in lookup_swap_cgroup_id on swapless host
From: mambaxin
Date: Fri Aug 14 2026 - 03:49:31 EST
From: "Jose Fernandez (Anthropic)" <jose.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 63b02a9409cb5180398491b093e48bcb5315f5fb ]
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.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260504-swap-cgroup-fix-7-0-v1-1-f53ff41ee553@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: bea67dcc5eea ("mm: attempt to batch free swap entries for zap_pte_range()")
Signed-off-by: Jose Fernandez (Anthropic) <jose.fernandez@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+e12bd9ca48157add237a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/69859728.050a0220.3b3015.0033.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Claude:unspecified
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: chenxin <chenxinxin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swap_cgroup.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/swap_cgroup.c b/mm/swap_cgroup.c
index db6c4a26cf59..2d0425f4a6b9 100644
--- a/mm/swap_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/swap_cgroup.c
@@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ unsigned short swap_cgroup_record(swp_entry_t ent, unsigned short id,
*/
unsigned short lookup_swap_cgroup_id(swp_entry_t ent)
{
+ struct swap_cgroup_ctrl *ctrl;
+
+ ctrl = &swap_cgroup_ctrl[swp_type(ent)];
+ if (unlikely(!ctrl->map))
+ return 0;
return lookup_swap_cgroup(ent, NULL)->id;
}
--
2.50.1