Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.16.0+ #84
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x185/0x1d0 lib/dump_stack.c:53
 panic+0x39d/0x940 kernel/panic.c:183
 find_child_reaper kernel/exit.c:579 [inline]
 forget_original_parent kernel/exit.c:671 [inline]
 exit_notify kernel/exit.c:707 [inline]
 do_exit+0x38c1/0x38d0 kernel/exit.c:887
 do_group_exit+0x1a0/0x360 kernel/exit.c:970
 get_signal+0x1320/0x1f20 kernel/signal.c:2469
 do_signal+0xb8/0x1c80 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:809
 exit_to_usermode_loop arch/x86/entry/common.c:162 [inline]
 prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x271/0x3a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:196
 retint_user+0x8/0x8
RIP: 0033:          (null)
RSP: 002b:00007fff35f07fa8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000000000000000a
Dumping ftrace buffer:
   (ftrace buffer empty)
Kernel Offset: disabled
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