diff --git a/stdlib/test-bz22786.c b/stdlib/test-bz22786.c
index d1aa691..777bf91 100644
--- a/stdlib/test-bz22786.c
+++ b/stdlib/test-bz22786.c
@@ -39,16 +39,25 @@ do_test (void)
   const char *lnk = xasprintf ("%s/symlink", dir);
   const size_t path_len = (size_t) INT_MAX + strlen (lnk) + 1;
 
-  TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (symlink (".", lnk) == 0);
-
   DIAG_PUSH_NEEDS_COMMENT;
 #if __GNUC_PREREQ (7, 0)
   /* GCC 7 warns about too-large allocations; here we need such
      allocation to succeed for the test to work.  */
   DIAG_IGNORE_NEEDS_COMMENT (7, "-Walloc-size-larger-than=");
 #endif
-  char *path = xmalloc (path_len);
+  char *path = malloc (path_len);
   DIAG_POP_NEEDS_COMMENT;
+  if (path == NULL)
+    {
+      printf ("malloc (%zu): %m\n", path_len);
+      /* On 31-bit s390 the malloc will always fail as we do not have
+	 so much memory, and we want to mark the test unsupported.
+	 Likewise on systems with little physical memory the test will
+	 fail and should be unsupported.  */
+      return EXIT_UNSUPPORTED;
+    }
+
+  TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (symlink (".", lnk) == 0);
 
   /* Construct very long path = "/tmp/bz22786.XXXX/symlink/aaaa....."  */
   char *p = mempcpy (path, lnk, strlen (lnk));