diff --git a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c b/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
index d168c87c7d30..ec4fd253a4e9 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ int __init firmware_map_add_early(u64 start, u64 end, const char *type)
 {
 	struct firmware_map_entry *entry;
 
-	entry = memblock_alloc(sizeof(struct firmware_map_entry),
+	entry = memblock_alloc_nopanic(sizeof(struct firmware_map_entry),
 			       SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
 	if (WARN_ON(!entry))
 		return -ENOMEM;