swapfile: fix memory corruption via malformed swapfile

When root activates a swap partition whose header has the wrong
endianness, nr_badpages elements of badpages are swabbed before
nr_badpages has been checked, leading to a buffer overrun of up to 8GB.

This normally is not a security issue because it can only be exploited
by root (more specifically, a process with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or the ability
to modify a swap file/partition), and such a process can already e.g.
modify swapped-out memory of any other userspace process on the system.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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