Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86: Check return values from early_ioremap calls

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 03:45:21PM +0000, Ross Philipson wrote:
> On allocation failures, panic() was used since this seemed
> to be the action taken on other failures in the modules
> touched by this patch.

How is the panic() more useful than the obvious NULL deref that also
splats?