CVE-2026-64416

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On a swapless host every ctrl->map\nis NULL, so __swap_cgroup_id_lookup() dereferences NULL + a scaled\nswp_offset().\n\nSince commit bea67dcc5eea (\"mm: attempt to batch free swap entries for\nzap_pte_range()\"), zap_pte_range() -> swap_pte_batch() calls\nlookup_swap_cgroup_id() on any non-present, non-none PTE that decodes as a\nreal swap entry, without first validating it against swap_info[]. 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