When memzone initialization fails, report the error to the calling application rather than panic().
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index 909f6b7..31d3bba 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -828,8 +828,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) /* the directories are locked during eal_hugepage_info_init */ eal_hugedirs_unlock(); - if (rte_eal_memzone_init() < 0) - rte_panic("Cannot init memzone\n"); + if (rte_eal_memzone_init() < 0) { + RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot init memzone\n"); + errno = ENODEV; + return -1; + } if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0) rte_panic("Cannot init tail queues for objects\n"); -- 2.7.4