Assume all swap memory is free on values overflow (#9383)

There have been reports about user swap memory being a value that looks
like an overflow. At the moment used swap memory is calculated as the
value of total memory minus the free memory, so this means that free
memory is bigger than total in some cases. This isn't possible in
principle. Assume that no swap is being used if that happens.

CHANGELOG.asciidoc

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v7.0.0-alpha1...master[Check the HEAD d
 - Fix autodiscover configurations stopping when metadata is missing. {pull}8851[8851]
 - Log events at the debug level when dropped by encoding problems. {pull}9251[9251]
 - Refresh host metadata in add_host_metadata. {pull}9359[9359]
+- When collecting swap metrics for beats telemetry or system metricbeat module handle cases of free swap being bigger than total swap by assuming no swap is being used. {issue}6271[6271] {pull}9383[9383]
 
 *Auditbeat*
 

libbeat/metric/system/memory/memory.go

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package memory
 
 import (
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/common"
+	"github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/logp"
 	sigar "github.com/elastic/gosigar"
 )
 
@@ -69,6 +70,17 @@ func GetSwap() (*SwapStat, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// This shouldn't happen, but it has been reported to happen and
+	// this can provoke too big values for used swap.
+	// Workaround this by assuming that all swap is free in that case.
+	if swap.Free > swap.Total || swap.Used > swap.Total {
+		logp.Debug("memory",
+			"Unexpected values for swap memory - total: %v free: %v used: %v.  Setting swap used to 0.",
+			swap.Total, swap.Free, swap.Used)
+		swap.Free = swap.Total
+		swap.Used = 0
+	}
+
 	return &SwapStat{Swap: swap}, nil
 }