CVE-2026-64416
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
mm: swap_cgroup: fix NULL deref in lookup_swap_cgroup_id on swapless host
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.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bea67dcc5eea0f6a213897a59b9e644977cd07e6 | affected | git | 818416fef38759f23210de449663cd9d7e293d39 | Unavailable | None listed |
| bea67dcc5eea0f6a213897a59b9e644977cd07e6 | affected | git | b415c00bf23df577a4a95673d00ae76687bcc1d4 | Unavailable | None listed |
| bea67dcc5eea0f6a213897a59b9e644977cd07e6 | affected | git | 6a4196d19f477524d2f92adca90fc1fbe9a0420a | Unavailable | None listed |
| bea67dcc5eea0f6a213897a59b9e644977cd07e6 | affected | git | 63b02a9409cb5180398491b093e48bcb5315f5fb | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.12 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 6.12 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.12.97 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.39 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.1.4 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.1.* | None listed |
| 7.2 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |