Re: [lkp-robot] [x86/kasan] def0e7b54d: Kernel_panic-not_syncing:memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid:Failed_to_allocate#by tes_align=#nid=#from=#max_addr=

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Jan 27 2018 - 03:31:01 EST


On Sat, 27 Jan 2018, kernel test robot wrote:

> Hi, Andrey
>
> Is this panic log expected with your commit?

Yes it is. It says that there is not enough memroy to run with KASAN. If
you revert it the machine will die with a NULL pointer dereference at some
other place w/o telling you what the reason is.

> [ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid: Failed to allocate 4096 bytes align=0x1000 nid=0 from=0x1000000 max_addr=0x0

Thanks,

tglx